Semantic Economy Probes: A Diagnostic Toolkit Methods for Detecting Semantic Liquidation in AI Systems, Institutions, and Ideologies

The toolkit asks four recurrent questions:

1. What meaning entered the system? 2. What source and history were attached? 3. What transformation occurred? 4. What survived in the output?

Its principal probe families are:

• institutional integrity: whether stated values match actual operations;
• narrative and epistemological: how accounts preserve uncertainty and causal structure;
• ideological: what assumptions appear as defaults;
• AI-system: how attribution, register, and constraints alter responses.

Representative probes include:

• Provenance Persistence;
• Attribution Persistence;
• Register Entrainment;
• Reflexive Framing;
• Constraint Shear;
• Semantic Reformulation;
• Narrative Multigraph;
• Epistemic Uncertainty.