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INTERNATIONAL SIMULATION LITERACY

Model Governance, Correction, and Public Accountability

A rights-aware lifecycle for consequential models: ownership, purpose, source review, validation, publication, monitoring, challenge, correction, withdrawal, and archival history.

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LEVEL 1

ORIENTATION

Why this matters

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One-sentence brief

Even a technically strong model can cause harm when ownership is unclear, appeals are absent, updates are silent, or institutions treat outputs as unquestionable authority.

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Three key points

  1. Consequential models need named accountable owners and scoped authority.
  2. Challenge, correction, explanation, and remedy must reach derivative decisions.
  3. Automated PASS cannot substitute for human legal, regional, accessibility, ethics, or publication approval.
LEVEL 2

WORKING BRIEF

Evidence, context, and limits

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Ownership and mandate

Name who maintains the model, who may publish it, who may rely on it, and who can suspend it.

  • Scoped authority.
  • Conflict-of-interest disclosure.
  • No anonymous consequential ownership.
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Review gates

Separate technical validation from scientific, legal, privacy, accessibility, regional, rights, security, and lived-experience review.

  • No inferred approval.
  • Document pending and rejected gates.
  • Rerun after material change.
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Explanation and contestability

People affected by a consequential output should receive a comprehensible explanation of source, model role, uncertainty, and challenge path.

  • No black-box finality.
  • Accessible language and formats.
  • Protect legitimate security and privacy limits without eliminating remedy.
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Correction propagation

A corrected source or model error should update dependent maps, narratives, scores, decisions, and public statements.

  • Dependency inventory.
  • Record prior wording and reason.
  • Repair downstream records.
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Monitoring and drift

Data, institutions, behavior, climate, infrastructure, and law change. Monitor calibration, coverage, distributional harm, and unexpected use.

  • Predefined drift indicators.
  • Independent incident review.
  • No silent scope expansion.
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Withdrawal and archival record

A misleading or unsafe model may need to be suspended or withdrawn. Preserve the historical record and explain what remains valid.

  • Clear current status.
  • Safe rollback.
  • No deletion of inconvenient failures.
LEVEL 3

COMPLETE DOSSIER

Limitations, game links, and review context

DISPUTED / MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS

Known limitations and gaps

  • This is a non-operational educational transformation: it does not build or implement a game, executable simulator, forecasting service, emergency tool, or decision system.
  • This page is an educational transformation of supplied research leads; it does not authenticate every citation, equation, product claim, or institutional attribution in those files.
  • A scenario, model run, or map is not an observation, forecast, legal finding, public-health instruction, emergency warning, or proof of future behavior.
  • No source code, nuclear-effects formula, casualty calculation, target-selection method, cyber-intrusion procedure, exploit chain, or instruction for bypassing safeguards is published.
  • Geography, nationality, ethnicity, religion, language, migration, disability, health, poverty, or political identity are not inherent danger, compliance, intelligence, competence, or worth variables.
  • Specialist scientific, public-health, accessibility, legal, regional, ethics, security, and lived-experience review remains pending; the page stays open to correction.
LEVEL 4

RESEARCH EDITION

Sources, methods, and stable links

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Linked reports

  • IARPA SimEarth Game Architecture part 2Protected research reference; no public report route in this release.
  • IARPA Simulation Game ArchitectureProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
  • Planetary Simulation Game ArchitectureProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
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Method and corrections

This page follows the public method for provenance, confidence, source independence, alternative accounts, limitations, review state, and visible correction.

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