No Certificate, No Categorical Speech Act: A Brouwerian Assertibility Constraint for Public Reason
arXiv:2603.03971v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative AI can convert uncertainty into authoritative-seeming verdicts, displacing the justificatory work on which democratic epistemic agency depends. As a corrective, I propose a Brouwer-inspired assertibility constraint for responsible AI: in high-stakes domains, systems may assert or deny claims only if they can provide a publicly inspectable and contestable certificate of entitlement; otherwise they must return Undetermined. This…