Complete elimination of human DGF execution

Establish whether all human execution of Digital Governance Framework review tasks, including both case-level effort and recurring support work, can be eliminated through software while preserving the accepted governance outputs.

Background

The paper distinguishes partial task substitution from complete elimination of human work in Digital Governance Framework workflows. Although the benchmark demonstrates software execution of specified review contracts, it does not establish that exception handling, maintenance, supervision, and other recurring support activities can also be automated.

The authors characterize complete replacement as a stronger, undated conjecture. Achieving it would require both the human effort devoted to individual cases and the recurring support floor to disappear, making this an unresolved extension beyond the reported experiments.

References

Full elimination of human DGF execution is a stronger, undated conjecture. It would require both case-level human effort and the recurring support floor to disappear. No finite benchmark here establishes that endpoint.

— The Last Human Gate: Forward Deployed Engineering for Governance Automation  (2609.29345 - Canale, 24 Sep 2026) in Section 6.1, “The 2033 hypothesis and a falsifiable deployment test”