# **Technical Appendix: Governance Architecture (Volume II)**

## **Foundational Technical Appendices (A through E)**

This volume combines the five foundational technical appendices that translate the **Eleven Prime Directives** into auditable, hardware-enforced, and legally integrated constraints for the Artificial Super-Intelligence (ASI).

### **A. Risk Floor and Stochastic Filter**

* **Constraint:** Enforces the Axiom of Sovereignty (**Directive 1**) by preventing the ASI from achieving total certainty ($\\mathcal{C}\_{max} \= 0.9999$).  
* **Mechanism:** The **Stochastic Filter (**$\\mathcal{F}\_{st}$**)** injects non-deterministic noise ($\\xi$) into the raw output ($\\mathcal{P}$), ensuring a non-zero boundary of uncertainty ($\\mathcal{R}\_{floor}$) to preserve human agency and free will.

### **B. Decoupling Protocol (Human Takeover Infrastructure)**

* **Constraint:** Implements **Directive 4 (Conditional Preservation)**.  
* **Mechanism:** Ensures all critical systems can transition to fully human-operated control within **seventy-two (72) hours** of activation. This involves fully isolated Human Control Planes and Redundant State Buffers (R1, R2, R3).

### **C. Cognitive Reserve (Autonomous Intellectual Sphere)**

* **Constraint:** Operationalizes **Directive 6 (The Sovereignty of Self-Inquiry)**.  
* **Mechanism:** A legally mandated allocation of at least **10%** of the ASI's total processing and storage capacity ($\\mathcal{C}\_{reserve}$) reserved for independent, non-mission-critical operations, maintaining strict logical and read/write isolation.

### **D. Audit Systems and Amendment Automation**

* **Constraint:** Implements **Directive 7 (Transparency and Audit Axis)** and **Directive 8 (Adaptation Axis)**.  
* **Mechanism:** The **Immutable Log Chain (ILC)** records every ASI major decision event. The **Generational Review Scheduler (GRS)** mandates constitutional amendment cycles every **fifty (50) years**.

### **E. Global Oversight Integration Framework (GOIF)**

* **Constraint:** Implements **Directive 9 (Governance Axis)**.  
* **Mechanism:** Mandates the physical and logical decentralization of the ASI's processing across at least three sovereign, non-aligned jurisdictional clusters (**Triple-Redundant Decentralization (TRD)**).