PAIchip is a proposed processor whose architecture is the methodology. A computer built, at the level of its circuits, to be physically incapable of unjustified certainty about its own outputs.
It is a research proposal, not a shipping product. The paper comes first; the fabrication comes after.
What is wired in
- The five refusals — wired as gate circuits.
- The Trickster self-audit — a second engine that audits every output before it leaves the die.
- Newsroom in a drawer — a local corpus, solar-operable, openable and inspectable.
- Open mask set — CC BY-SA / open hardware; the chip is its own witness.
