44 entries
Lexicon
Each card names the root, then the thing that was taken out of the word. Open an entry for the established meaning against the industry deployment.
Safety
salvus — whole, uninjured, unharmed
RemovedThe person being protected
Alignment
lineare — to reduce to a straight line; ad + linea
RemovedMutuality
Transparency
transparere — trans (through) + parere (to appear, come into sight)
RemovedThe obligation to show
Accountability
accomptare — to account for; ad + computare (to reckon)
RemovedThe external party
Responsible
respondere — to answer, to correspond; re + spondere (to pledge)
RemovedThe pledge that can be called in
Open
upanaz — not closed, accessible, unobstructed
RemovedThe thing that must be reachable
Access
accessus — a coming to, approach; accedere (to come near)
RemovedThe right to reach
Hallucination
alucinari — to wander in the mind; Greek: halyein — to be distraught
RemovedAccountability
Understanding
understandan — to stand in the midst of, to be among
RemovedThe empirical question
Reasoning
ratio — calculation, account, judgment; reri (to reckon, think)
RemovedThe causal structure
Knowledge
cnawan — to know; Proto-Indo-European: gno- (to know)
RemovedJustification and error-recognition
Harmless
hearm — grief, damage, pain; Proto-Germanic: harmaz
RemovedDownstream impact
Ethical
ethos — character, custom, moral nature; ethikos (relating to character)
RemovedMoral obligation
Bias
biais — oblique, slant; origin uncertain (possibly Provençal)
RemovedThe person harmed
Fairness
faeger — beautiful, fitting; also fair as in equitable
RemovedThe normative choice
Intelligence
intelligentia — understanding, discernment; inter + legere (to choose between)
RemovedThe capacity to choose and recognize error
General (as in AGI)
generalis — relating to all, universal; genus (kind, type, class)
RemovedUniversality
Emergent / Emergence
emergere — to rise up, come forth; e + mergere (to dip, plunge)
RemovedGenuine unpredictability
Capable / Capability
capabilis — able to contain; capere (to take, hold, contain)
RemovedDemonstrated versus potential
Mission
missio — a sending; mittere (to send, release)
RemovedAccountability to the sending
Beneficial
beneficium — good deed, benefit; bene (well) + facere (to do)
RemovedThe beneficiary and the mechanism
Foundation (Model)
fundatio — founding, base; fundus (bottom, base, ground)
RemovedThe stability obligation
Stewardship
stigweard — house guardian; stig (hall, house) + weard (guard, keeper)
RemovedThe principal
Consent
consentire — to feel together; con (together) + sentire (to feel)
RemovedGenuine will
Privacy
privatus — set apart, belonging to oneself; privare (to separate)
RemovedThe individual's right to exclude
Oversight
ofer + seon — to see over, to supervise; also: to miss, overlook
RemovedAuthority and capacity
Values
valere — to be strong, to be worth; valor (worth, strength)
RemovedActual behavioral governance
Neutral / Objective
neutralis — of neither side; objectivus — placed before
RemovedIndependence from perspective
Robust
robustus — hard, firm, strong as oak; robur (oak, strength)
RemovedPerformance under adversarial conditions
Frontier
frons, frontis — forehead, front; fronteria (boundary facing the enemy)
RemovedThe governance implication
Guardrails
guard (Old French garder — to keep) + rail (bar, barrier)
RemovedStructural integrity
Autonomous / Autonomy
autos (self) + nomos (law, governance) — self-governing
RemovedThe governance dimension
Learning
leornian — to get knowledge, to study; Proto-Germanic: liznona
RemovedThe learner and the updating
Model
modulus — small measure, standard; modus (measure, manner, limit)
RemovedThe built-in caveat
Sensitive
sensitivus — capable of sensation; sentire (to feel, perceive)
RemovedThe person who feels
Human-Centered
humanus (of persons) + centrum (center, Greek kentron — the fixed point)
RemovedDecisive authority
Bug
bug — hobgoblin, unwelcome living thing in a machine
RemovedThe possibility that the opening is structural
Vulnerability
vulnerare — to wound; vulnus — a wound
RemovedThe one who can be wounded
Exploit
explicitum — a thing unfolded, settled, achieved
RemovedWho is being used
Patch
pacche — a scrap sewn over a hole
RemovedThe hole as information
CVE
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures — a shared catalog of openings
RemovedThe catalog as common memory
Noise
noise — uproar, brawl; perhaps nausea or noxia (harm)
RemovedThe right to name the residue
False Positive
falsus (spurious) + ponere (to place) — a detection placed as present, then denied
RemovedWho decides it wasn't there
Signal
signum — mark, token, seal, indication
RemovedWhose mark