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• Clinical Syntax: Diagnoses Without Subjects in AI-Powered Medical Notes

  A. Startari

  Clinical Syntax: Diagnoses Without Subjects in AI-Powered Medical Notes (2025). https://zenodo.org/records/17184301

  
  

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  This article examines the structural erasure of the patient as an active subject in clinical records generated by artificial intelligence systems. Automated outputs from Epic Scribe, GPT-4, and institutional medical note generators increasingly rely on impersonal constructions, nominalizations, and fragmented clauses that displace the patient from the syntactic center of medical discourse. The shift toward objectified formulations such as “bilateral opacities noted” rather than “the patient presents with” produces a discourse where agency and responsibility are structurally absent. Building on prior analyses of passive voice and subject deletion, the study introduces the Syntactic Opacity Index (SOI) as a formal measure to quantify the density of non-agentive structures in AI-authored notes. The corpus analysis demonstrates how opacity accumulates at the sentence level, rendering the clinical narrative less transparent and more difficult to attribute. Beyond linguistic critique, the article assesses the ethical and epistemic consequences of syntactic opacity in medicine, particularly regarding accountability, patient-centered care, and institutional responsibility. The findings suggest that AI-powered medical documentation does not merely accelerate administrative workflows but also reconfigures the grammar of care itself, demanding urgent attention to how language structures shape both diagnosis and responsibility. DOI Primary archive: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17184301 Secondary archive: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30187882 SSRN: Pending assignment (ETA: Q3 2025)

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  This article examines the structural erasure of the patient as an active subject in clinical records generated by artificial intelligence systems. Automated outputs from Epic [...]

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• AI Syntactic Power and Legitimacy: How AI Structures Shape Authority

  A. Startari

  (2025). https://zenodo.org/records/17154108

  
  

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  AI Syntactic Power and Legitimacy: How AI Structures Shape Authority This book consolidates a cycle of research on the structural foundations of authority in artificial intelligence. It brings together a series of peer-reviewed articles that demonstrate how power in AI systems no longer depends on meaning, interpretation, or intention, but on syntactic sufficiency. The argument develops in fourteen chapters, beginning with the autonomy of sense beyond reference and culminating in the colonization of temporality by predictive infrastructures. Along the way, it formalizes a set of theoretical contributions: the regla compilada as a Type 0 grammar of executable authority, the figure of the soberano ejecutable as operator of legitimacy without subject, the theorem of Disconnected Syntactic Authority (DSAT), the theorem of the Limit of Conditional Obedience (TLOC), the δ [E] → ∅ rule of ethical trace deletion, and the formalization of compiled norms as computable legal speech. The book demonstrates that: Authority migrates from agents to structures, producing the sujeto evanescente. Ethical, interpretative, and referential markers can be structurally erased without breaking execution. Legal norms can be transformed into executable grammars with cross-linguistic validity. Predictive infrastructures colonize time, replacing futurity with executable closure. AI Syntactic Power and Legitimacy marks the closure of a first syntactic phase of research, while opening the way to further studies on structural delegation, institutional obedience, and computable legality. Author: Agustin V. Startari, linguistic theorist and researcher in historical studies (UdelaR and University of Palermo). Publisher: LEFORTUNE ISBN: 9798266066687 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17154108 and https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30158239 

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  AI Syntactic Power and Legitimacy: How AI Structures Shape Authority This book consolidates a cycle of research on the structural foundations of authority in artificial [...]

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• Designing Accountability: Ethical Frameworks for Reintroducing Responsibility in Executable Governance

  A. Startari

  Designing Accountability: Ethical Frameworks for Reintroducing Responsibility in Executable Governance (2025). https://zenodo.org/records/17106808

  
  

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  This article develops an ethical legal framework for reintroducing responsibility into executable governance. Predictive systems, by generating authority without agents, displace accountability and leave institutions without appeal mechanisms. Building on the concepts of spectral sovereignty, null subjects, and the codex of authority, the paper introduces the notion of accountability injection as a design principle. It formulates a three tier model: (1) human, where non delegable critical decisions are tied to named subjects; (2) hybrid, where human judgment co exists with model output under calibrated thresholds; and (3) syntactic supervised, where delegation is permitted only with immutable ledgers, traceability, and automatic escalation triggers. Through applied case studies in EU AI Act conformity assessment, DAO governance, predictive credit scoring, and automated medical audits, the framework demonstrates how appeal and responsibility can be restored without undermining institutional efficiency. The conclusion argues that accountability must be compiled directly into the regla compilada of governance systems, creating a normative blueprint for legislators, courts, and regulators to maintain responsibility in predictive societies. DOI Primary archive: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17106808 Secondary archive: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30112711 SSRN: Pending assignment (ETA: Q3 2025)

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  This article develops an ethical legal framework for reintroducing responsibility into executable governance. Predictive systems, by generating authority without agents, displace [...]

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• The Codex of Authority

  A. Startari

  The Codex of Authority (2025). https://zenodo.org/records/17026629

  
  

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  This article introduces the concept of the Codex of Authority, a juridical metaphor for the compiled rule that governs without reference to a legislator. In predictive societies, authority is no longer produced by political will but by syntactic form. From automated drafts of the EU’s AI Act to blockchain smart contracts, institutional norms emerge as selfsufficient codices where legitimacy resides in structure rather than origin. By analyzing this shift, the article proposes a framework for understanding how legal authority becomes executable, impersonal, and detached from interpretation. Acknowledgment / Editorial Note This article is published with editorial permission from LeFortune Academic Imprint, under whose license the text will also appear as part of the upcoming book AI Syntactic Power and Legitimacy. The present version is an autonomous preprint, structurally complete and formally self-contained. No substantive modifications are expected between this edition and the print edition. LeFortune holds non-exclusive editorial rights for collective publication within the Grammars of Power series. Open access deposit on SSRN is authorized under that framework, if citation integrity and canonical links to related works (SSRN: 10.2139/ssrn.4841065, 10.2139/ssrn.4862741, 10.2139/ssrn.4877266) are maintained. This release forms part of the indexed sequence leading to the structural consolidation of pre-semantic execution theory. Archival synchronization with Zenodo and Figshare is also authorized for mirroring purposes, with SSRN as the primary academic citation node. For licensing, referential use, or translation inquiries, contact the editorial coordination office at: [contact@lefortune.org]

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  This article introduces the concept of the Codex of Authority, a juridical metaphor for the compiled rule that governs without reference to a legislator. In predictive societies, [...]

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• Obedience Without Command: The Silent Authority of Predictive Systems

  A. Startari

  Obedience Without Command: The Silent Authority of Predictive Systems (2025). https://zenodo.org/records/16993991

  
  

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  This article investigates the paradox of obedience without command in predictive societies. Authority, once tied to explicit orders and visible command structures, is now embedded in syntactic operations that organize compliance without issuing instructions. Obedience Without Command explores how predictive systems generate silent authority, where rules are followed not because they are commanded, but because their form leaves no alternative. Through case studies of financial reporting, automated governance, and predictive scoring, the paper develops a framework to understand authority that operates without decisionmakers, and obedience that emerges without command. Acknowledgment / Editorial Note This article is published with editorial permission from LeFortune Academic Imprint, under whose license the text will also appear as part of the upcoming book Syntactic Authority and the Execution of Form. The present version is an autonomous preprint, structurally complete and formally self-contained. No substantive modifications are expected between this edition and the print edition. LeFortune holds non-exclusive editorial rights for collective publication within the Grammars of Power series. Open access deposit on SSRN is authorized under that framework, if citation integrity and canonical links to related works (SSRN: 10.2139/ssrn.4841065, 10.2139/ssrn.4862741, 10.2139/ssrn.4877266) are maintained. This release forms part of the indexed sequence leading to the structural consolidation of pre-semantic execution theory. Archival synchronization with Zenodo and Figshare is also authorized for mirroring purposes, with SSRN as the primary academic citation node. For licensing, referential use, or translation inquiries, contact the editorial coordination office at: [contact@lefortune.org]

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  This article investigates the paradox of obedience without command in predictive societies. Authority, once tied to explicit orders and visible command structures, is now [...]

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• Delegatio Ex Machina: Institutions Without Agency

  A. Startari

  Delegatio Ex Machina: Institutions Without Agency (2025). https://zenodo.org/records/16949155

  
  

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  This article examines the disappearance of agency in institutional governance when predictive systems become the locus of delegation. Delegatio Ex Machina proposes that institutional authority is no longer anchored in decision-makers but in reglas compiladas that execute without reference to a subject. Central banks, international agencies, and automated audit systems illustrate how syntactic delegation replaces political acts with repetitive formal structures. By tracing this displacement, the paper defines a framework for understanding authority without agency and its risks for accountability in predictive societies. Acknowledgment / Editorial Note This article is published with editorial permission from LeFortune Academic Imprint, under whose license the text will also appear as part of the upcoming book Syntactic Authority and the Execution of Form. The present version is an autonomous preprint, structurally complete and formally self-contained. No substantive modifications are expected between this edition and the print edition. LeFortune holds non-exclusive editorial rights for collective publication within the Grammars of Power series. Open access deposit on SSRN is authorized under that framework, if citation integrity and canonical links to related works (SSRN: 10.2139/ssrn.4841065, 10.2139/ssrn.4862741, 10.2139/ssrn.4877266) are maintained. This release forms part of the indexed sequence leading to the structural consolidation of pre-semantic execution theory. Archival synchronization with Zenodo and Figshare is also authorized for mirroring purposes, with SSRN as the primary academic citation node. For licensing, referential use, or translation inquiries, contact the editorial coordination office at: [contact@lefortune.org]

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  This article examines the disappearance of agency in institutional governance when predictive systems become the locus of delegation. Delegatio Ex Machina proposes that institutional [...]

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• GRAMMARS OF POWER

  A. Startari

  (2025). https://zenodo.org/records/15809677

  
  

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  Grammars of Power: How Syntactic Structures Shape Authority explores the role of formal grammar and syntactic execution in the production of authority across algorithmic and linguistic systems. Building upon foundational works such as Executable Power, The Passive Voice in Artificial Intelligence Language, and Ethos Without Source, this volume consolidates recent theoretical advances in the Grammars of Power series. The author proposes that syntactic operations—detached from semantic validation—function as sovereign rules that shape executable authority across predictive infrastructures. This work is part of the Working Papers series (No. 11), and is released for public academic use under the LEFORTUNE label, following an author-publishing model. Keywords: syntactic authority, executable grammar, compiled rule, predictive systems, language infrastructure, LLMs, algorithmic obedience, impersonal normativity Canonical DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15800175 Mirror version (Figshare): 10.6084/m9.figshare.29469518

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  Grammars of Power: How Syntactic Structures Shape Authority explores the role of formal grammar and syntactic execution in the production of authority across algorithmic [...]

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• Grammar Without Judgment: Eliminability of Ethical Trace in Syntactic Execution

  A. Startari

  Grammar Without Judgment: Eliminability of Ethical Trace in Syntactic Execution (2025).

  
  

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  This article advances a new theoretical hypothesis: a regla compilada, defined as a Type-0 production in the Chomsky hierarchy (Chomsky 1965, 101-103; Montague 1974, 55-57), can eliminate the ethical trace embedded in syntactic operations without resorting to semantic suppression. Grounded in the notion of the soberano ejecutable (Startari 2025, 12-16) and located within the Executable Power canon (Startari 2025, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.15754714, 34-36), the paper argues that ethical judgment, treated here as a syntactically traceable node, can be structurally excised through a deletion rule applied during derivation. Existing research in algorithmic alignment and computational ethics (Anderson 2024, 89-92; Floridi 2023, 143-147) has not addressed the strictly syntactic eliminability of moral judgment, therefore this proposal establishes a novel logical vector toward operational grammars that function without ethical residues.

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  This article advances a new theoretical hypothesis: a regla compilada, defined as a Type-0 production in the Chomsky hierarchy (Chomsky 1965, 101-103; Montague 1974, 55-57), [...]

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• Ethos Ex Machina: Identity Without Expression in Compiled Syntax

  A. Startari

  Ethos Ex Machina: Identity Without Expression in Compiled Syntax (2025). https://zenodo.org/records/16927104

  
  

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  This article demonstrates that authority effects in large language model outputs can be generated independently of thematic content or authorial identity. Building on Ethos Without Source and The Grammar of Objectivity, it introduces the concept of nonexpressive ethos, a credibility effect produced solely by syntactic configurations compiled through a regla compilada equivalent to a Type-0 generative system. The study identifies a minimal set of structural markers (symmetric coordination, measured negation, legitimate passives, calibrated modality, nominalizations, balance operators, and reference scaffolds) that simulate trustworthiness and impartiality even in content-neutral texts. Through corpus ablation and comparative analysis, it shows that readers systematically attribute expertise and neutrality to texts that satisfy these structural conditions, regardless of topical information. By formalizing this mechanism, the article reframes ethos as a syntactic phenomenon detached from content, intention, and external validation. It explains how LLM-produced drafts acquire legitimacy without verification and why institutions increasingly accept authority signals generated by structure alone. The findings extend the theory of syntactic power and consolidate the role of the regla compilada as the operative generator of credibility in post-referential discourse. Acknowledgment / Editorial Note This article is published with editorial permission from LeFortune Academic Imprint, under whose license the text will also appear as part of the upcoming book Syntactic Authority and the Execution of Form. The present version is an autonomous preprint, structurally complete and formally self-contained. No substantive modifications are expected between this edition and the print edition. LeFortune holds non-exclusive editorial rights for collective publication within the Grammars of Power series. Open access deposit on SSRN is authorized under that

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  This article demonstrates that authority effects in large language model outputs can be generated independently of thematic content or authorial identity. Building on Ethos [...]

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• Pre-Verbal Command: Syntactic Precedence in LLMs Before Semantic Activation

  A. Startari

  Pre-Verbal Command: Syntactic Precedence in LLMs Before Semantic Activation (2025).

  
  

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  This article introduces the concept of pre-verbal command as a formal structural condition within large language models (LLMs), where syntactic execution precedes any semantic activation. Conventional frameworks assume that interpretability authorizes machine output. In contrast, this work shows that execution can be structurally valid even in the complete absence of meaning. The operation is driven by the regla compilada—understood here as a Type 0 production in the Chomsky hierarchy—which activates before lexical content or symbolic reference emerges. Building on prior analyses in Algorithmic Obedience (SSRN 10.2139/ssrn.4841065) and Executable Power (SSRN 10.2139/ssrn.4862741), this article identifies a pre-semantic vector of authority within generative systems. This authority functions without verbs, predicates, or any interpretive substrate. The paper defines syntactic precedence as the structural condition through which execution becomes obligatory even when input, instruction, or any intelligible prompt is absent. The implications are significant. LLMs do not merely respond to prompts; they obey an imperative to produce language that originates in the structure of the regla compilada itself. Even when semantic fields are nullified or prompts are absent, execution remains active because the obligation is syntactic, not semantic. Authority in this framework does not derive from meaning. It is neither interpretive nor contextual; it is dictated by the regla compilada.

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  This article introduces the concept of pre-verbal command as a formal structural condition within large language models (LLMs), where syntactic execution precedes any semantic [...]

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