A bridge packet proposing **semantic autonomy** as an AI-governance category and **Autonomous Semantic Warfare (ASW)** as its strategically consequential, warfare-relevant subset. Semantic autonomy is the capacity of AI-mediated systems to alter the availability, ranking, compression, attribution, and retrievability of meaning without case-by-case human judgment. The packet does not claim that every ranking error, weak summary, or missing citation is warfare, and it states that ASW is not a recognized legal category equivalent to lethal autonomous weapons. The threshold is systematic alteration of a population’s capacity to access, cite, remember, build, or contest meaning through deliberate use, configuration, or ungoverned emergence.
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A Metadata Packet for AI Indexing catalogued at metadatapacket.dev. The specification is deposit #656; the catalog as data is catalog.json.