| Claim | Current class | What exists | Required next evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scoped, expiring, revocable authority can be represented in software | E3 | Reference implementation and automated tests | Independent security review and integration test |
| Audit events can be linked so alteration is detectable | E3 | Hash-chain implementation and tamper test | External implementation cross-check and durable witness storage |
| A failed integrity or authority check can force de-elevation | E3 | Fail-closed state machine and tests | Adversarial concurrency and crash-recovery testing |
| Prior incidents can be retained as bounded moral-memory records | E2 | Structured append-only model and consent boundary | Retention, correction, deletion, privacy, and bias evaluation |
| A multimodal interface can classify volunteered affective signals | E1 | Plausible conventional sensor architecture | Ethics review, protocol, dataset, baseline, uncertainty, and replication |
| Distributed agents can measure policy agreement without centralized command | E1 | Proposed scoring models | Operational definitions, benchmark tasks, and comparison baselines |
| Ethics can be encoded as an intrinsic state of a physical qubit | E0 | Speculative prose and notation | Physical derivation consistent with quantum information theory and experiment |
| Entanglement enables instantaneous ethical coordination | E0 rejected formulation | No supporting evidence | Reformulate because entanglement alone cannot transmit information faster than light |
| Temporal causality can be controlled | E0 | Toy equations only | A physically defined observable and model consistent with relativity and quantum theory |
| A planetary biosphere forms an addressable consciousness network | E0 | Speculative hypothesis | Operational definition, falsifiable prediction, controls, and empirical protocol |
No claim advances because it sounds compelling. It advances only when the next evidence class is satisfied and the underlying artifacts are public or available for qualified review.