Can an AI have its own internal Ethics? Standard Protocol for Axiomatic Alignment

I think the issue is that you are still describing behavioral regularity, not demonstrating an internal ethical structure. From an implementation perspective, those are not the same thing. Fine tuning can strengthen priors and improve consistency, but that does not by itself establish a durable internal framework in the stronger sense you are implying. The key question is still how you operationally distinguish trained policy behavior from genuine internalized structure under adversarial and out of distribution conditions.