The Demonic Intelligence Assessment Framework: Objectives, Human Costs, and Corrective Power

“The Demonic Intelligence Assessment Framework: Objectives, Human Costs, and Corrective Power” proposes a structured way to examine whether an intelligent system’s pursuit of performance creates foreseeable and unacceptable harm for the people it affects.

The framework connects five assessment domains: objective integrity, foreseeable human cost, distribution of burdens and benefits, affected-person influence, and corrective power. It asks whether an institution can justify a system’s purpose, identify harms that its performance measures overlook, hear meaningful challenges, and correct or suspend the system when harm emerges.

The article outlines a qualitative review process for use before deployment, during operation, and after an incident. It also calls for interdisciplinary review, testing against real cases, and participation by affected people. This is a proposed ethical assessment framework; it is not a validated certification or numerical scoring standard.