This paper introduces A. M. O. (Authority Management Overlay), a formal runtime architecture for structural governance in autonomous systems. AMOConstitutionalRuntimeArchitectureᵥ3. 1. 0-2. pdf None It identifies a fundamental limitation in current AI governance approaches: governance mechanisms are positioned outside the execution path, resulting in systems that execute before legitimacy is verified. These systems are therefore monitored rather than governed. The proposed architecture enforces governance as a structural property of execution. It defines a pre-commit authority model in which governance signals are aggregated through a collapse operator into a single admissibility determination prior to execution. The system satisfies a set of formal invariants ensuring that state mutation is unreachable without prior legitimacy verification, eliminating implicit authority and preventing execution under compromised governance conditions. The architecture is demonstrated through a minimal reference implementation and evaluated under adversarial scenarios, showing deterministic fail-closed behavior. This work positions governance as an execution-graph property and provides a foundation for formally verifiable, non-bypassable governance in autonomous systems.
Ricardo Rubio Albacete (Wed,) studied this question.