Accountability is designed into the path from perception to action.
ARCHETRON separates the stages an autonomous system must move through so observation, reasoning, authority, action, and accountability do not collapse into one opaque event.
01Sense
Observe the environment and establish what entered the system.
02Understand
Turn evidence and state into a grounded interpretation.
03Decide
Form a proposed course of action from the available context.
04Authorize
Apply policy, limits, and human authority before execution.
05Act
Execute only what has crossed the required authority boundary.
06Account
Preserve what happened, why it happened, and who or what authorized it.
