Luke F. Walton

Building Answerable AI

Why Automation Needs Owned Error

Luke F. Walton · Working paper · forthcoming June 14, 2026 · June 2026

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In plain terms

This paper gives the constructive builder response in the Answerability Quartet. It argues that answerability is not only a constraint on automation but an enabling condition for automation that can compound without drifting. The design pattern is framed automation: hold the junctures, automate the execution, and let failure write the interface.

Full text

This paper gives the constructive builder response in the Answerability Quartet. It argues that answerability is not only a constraint on automation but an enabling condition for automation that can compound without drifting. The design pattern is framed automation: hold the junctures, automate the execution, and let failure write the interface.

Full text forthcoming June 14, 2026.

Luke F. Walton · ORCID 0009-0005-9263-1954 · June 2026

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