# Adaptive Governor The adaptive governor is the function artificial intelligence performs when it manages a cognitive-influence loop by sensing, modeling, generating, testing, and recalibrating rather than merely producing messages. ## Operational role It selects interventions based on a target model, observes resulting behavioral or informational signals, and modifies the next intervention. That feedback function distinguishes [[Closed-Loop Cognitive Attrition]] from broadcast propaganda or one-way psychological messaging. ## Evidentiary boundary Personalized content or algorithmic recommendation is not by itself proof of an adversarial adaptive governor. The claim requires evidence connecting target profiling, intervention selection, effect measurement, recalibration, and an operational objective. ## Relationships [[Artificial Intelligence]] · [[Behavioral Profiling]] · [[Cognitive-Cyber Warfare]] · [[Adaptive Constraint Field]]. ## Source [[articles/Cognitive-Cyber Warfare Measures and Countermeasures#A Candidate Definition: Cognitive Warfare as the Contest Over Reactions, Not Dissemination|Cognitive-Cyber Warfare — candidate definition]].