Meltdown

This essay explores the concept of "Regulative AI": artificial intelligence systems designed to monitor, validate, align, or constrain other systems – especially generative ones – in order to enforce rules, constraints, or norms through feedback and oversight. Regulative AI is not opposed to generative AI; instead, it makes generative systems viable through the intelligent application of steering, brakes, filters, and correctives that keep them from self-destructing. With generative AI triggering a runaway chain reaction, regulative AI provides the necessary structure for channeling those outputs toward purpose.