BU71 AI, Human Judgment, and the Reality Settlement Surface Candidate Readouts, Standing, and the Source-Level Reclassification of Reliability

This paper develops BU71|AI, Human Judgment, and the Reality Settlement Surface as a source-level reclassification of reliability in the AI era. Its central claim is that AI systems, human experts, formal models, benchmark results, papers, reports, and institutional judgments all share the same structural status: they are local readout systems. They can produce fluent, authoritative, rigorous, confident, or highly plausible candidate outputs, but none of these outputs automatically obtains standing. The paper reframes the popular distinction between convincing and correct. Convincing belongs to the projection side: linguistic fluency, expert confidence, mathematical elegance, institutional authority, and…