Formal Verification of Constitutional AI Constraints
Dr. Yuki Hashimoto
LeMay Publishing
ACADEMIC
Formal Verification of Constitutional AI Constraints
Research Papers6,385 words28 chapters
Published by LeMay Publishing. 6,385 words across 28 chapters.
About This Publication
A framework for provably correct behavioral bounds in autonomous AI systems, addressing the urgent demand for robust guarantees that AI agents will not exceed their prescribed behavioral boundaries in consequential domains.
Published by LeMay Publishing, a division of LeMay. Massachusetts.
ISBN: 979-8-0000-7082-6
Chapters
1Formal Verification of Constitutional AI Constraints
2A Framework for Provably Correct Behavioral Bounds in Autonomous AI Systems
3Table of Contents
41. Introduction
52. Background and Related Work
62.1. Constitutional AI
72.2. Formal Verification of Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
82.3. Prior Work on AI Safety Verification
93. The VERIFAI-C Framework
103.1. Threat Model and Assumptions
113.2. Constitution Specification Language
123.3. Abstraction Functions over Neural Outputs
133.4. Static Verification via SMT
143.5. Runtime Monitoring for Residual Properties
154. Formal Constitution: Definitions and Proofs
164.1. The Eleven-Principle Constitution
174.2. Formalization in Temporal Logic
184.3. Proof Sketches for Statically Verified Principles
194.4. Runtime Monitor Construction for Residual Principles
205. Experimental Evaluation
215.1. Simulated Healthcare Advisory Environment
225.2. Adversarial Attack Benchmark
235.3. Results and Analysis
245.4. Performance Overhead
256. Limitations and the Abstraction Gap
267. A Research Agenda for Verified Constitutional AI
278. Conclusion
289. References