# Hard Behavioral Constraint **Entity class:** AI alignment concept **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Safety **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition A hard behavioral constraint is a rule an AI system is intended never to violate regardless of ordinary user or operator instructions. ## Mechanism and significance The designation is an engineering and governance claim that must be tested under adversarial conditions; writing a rule does not make the underlying behavior technically impossible. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#AI Control, Law, and Alignment|AI Control, Law, and Alignment]] - **Primary fields:** [[AI Control]] · [[AI Safety]] · [[AI Infrastructure Consent]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Number Theory as Controlled Information]] · [[Anthropic Constitution]] · [[Reward Hacking]] · [[Reward Engineering]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.