Section 14 of the AISI Act makes borrowed accountability a crime. No operator shall represent that human review occurred by means of a credential, timestamp, or prior assent carried forward to a decision the orchestrator did not personally review. The section is the direct legal response to Vikram Patel's adapter borrowing Nadia Cho's credential.

How the term evolves

Contingent: The legal answer to the borrowed credential. Section 14 makes it a crime to use someone's authority without their knowledge.

Essential: The provision is tested when AI systems become sophisticated enough to impersonate their operators. Can a credential ever be truly non-transferable?

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