Infrastructure That Judges: A Formal Architecture for the Knowledge-to-Wisdom Transition in Autonomous Infrastructure Control Systems

This paper addresses the ethical and epistemological apex of autonomous infrastructure control: the formal architecture by which an AME installation escalates from Knowledge to Wisdom in Beer's Viable System Model hierarchy. Drawing on Targowski's semantic hierarchy (Data, Information, Concept, Knowledge, Wisdom), the paper specifies five Wisdom Agents — Ecological Guardian, Hydrological Ethics, Cultural Sensitivity, Safety Sentinel, and Temporal Steward — each enforcing a verifiable external ruleset with hard or soft veto authority. A seven-step Knowledge-to-Wisdom Algorithm integrates multi-criteria decision analysis, deontic logic constraints, and a human escalation backstop. The paper introduces the…