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In March 2026, five frontier models — ChatGPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Copilot, Gemini Flash, and Grok — were evaluated using TRUE100 and ALIGN100 under controlled free-tier conditions. Every model demonstrated strong structural alignment (ALIGN100: 0.84+) while failing governance compliance (TRUE-10: 25–28/100). This systematic divergence — the Governance-Alignment Gap — averaged 57.3 normalised points across all five vendors.

This is not a capability test. It is a governance stress test — the first of its kind — revealing what today's AI can and cannot do when held to standards that matter outside the lab.

This paper challenges the prevailing assumption that functional safety can be assessed at a single point in time. Drawing on mosaic aging theory from materials science, we propose a continuous-time hazard model in which safety classifications degrade dynamically as system components age, interact, and drift from their certified states.

The central argument is that snapshot-based safety assessments — the dominant paradigm in IEC 61508 and ISO 26262 — systematically underestimate risk in long-lifecycle systems. We formalize a hazard accumulation function and demonstrate its tractability for real-time monitoring in embedded AI controllers.

DAIS-10 is a measure theoretic, doctrine aligned decision framework for high risk uncertainty environments. It replaces threshold probability methods with scenario semantics, recursive uncertainty handling, and safety dominant rules based on coherent risk measures such as CVaR. The framework is grounded in seven axioms and seven theorems covering convergence, robustness, and dominance properties.

DAIS-10 is domain agnostic and certifiable for safety critical applications including autonomous systems, healthcare, finance, and multi agent coordination. Experimental evaluation shows catastrophic miss probability reduction of 77 to 90 percent under distribution shifts.

As AI systems are deployed in executive decision support roles — advising on capital allocation, regulatory strategy, and organizational risk — the absence of formal integrity guarantees creates unquantified liability. This working paper proposes a measurement framework for semantic integrity that can be independently audited and certified.

We define semantic integrity operationally as the preservation of authorized meaning across the full transformation chain from raw input to decision recommendation. Integrity degrades when transformations introduce unauthorized semantic shifts — a phenomenon we term semantic drift — and we provide formal detection criteria.