AI-Augmented Cognitive Expression & Governance™ (AACEG): A Framework for Posture-Based Augmentation

AI-Augmented Cognitive Expression & Governance™ (AACEG) names a posture for describing how cognition appears when AI participates in articulation. The document supplies vocabulary for distinguishing appearance, articulation, interpretation, and decision without converting augmentation into method, ethics program, compliance structure, or institutional governance regime. The paper stabilizes posture-level distinctions such as interpretive retention, visible augmentation, and non-delegation of judgment. These distinctions function descriptively rather than normatively. AACEG reframes “AI governance” as an appearance-layer separability problem rather than an operational or regulatory framework. No techniques, prescriptions, performance claims, or implementation pathways are introduced.