{
  "schema": "ULTRACON_AI_EPISTEMIC_UPDATE_V1",
  "id": "UCF-WATCH-2026-09-19-EVIDENCE-V2",
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "status": "PEER_REVIEWED_GAP_FILL_AND_METHOD_CORRECTION",
  "axes": [
    "CONFAB",
    "META",
    "CONSC",
    "SPIRAL"
  ],
  "change_type": [
    "uncertainty_origin",
    "interactive_calibration",
    "multi_source_arbitration",
    "trace_abstention",
    "evidence_architecture",
    "metadata_correction"
  ],
  "summary": "Adds four peer-reviewed ACL 2026 papers that separate uncertainty origin, clarification/calibration, source conflict and trace-based abstention. Introduces five non-sovereign methodological maps and records a NeurIPS metadata correction.",
  "canonical_new_cuts": [
    "data_uncertainty != model_uncertainty",
    "explicit_uncertainty_attribution != privileged_endogenous_access",
    "privileged_internal_information != endogenous_privileged_access",
    "endogenous_privileged_access != second_order_metacognition",
    "reasoning_trace_signal != faithful_introspection",
    "parametric_knowledge != user_assertion != document_assertion"
  ],
  "source_addendum": "./sources.json",
  "experiment_addendum": "./experiments.json",
  "correction": "./correction.json",
  "guardrail": "M1/M2/M3 ↛ M5; no scalar evidence or consciousness score."
}