Maturity-Gated Actuation Authority - Trust Earned by Evidence
Abstract
A control-governance principle that makes trust quantitative: the actuation authority a controller or AI is permitted at runtime is a monotone function of the verification-and-validation maturity (PCMM level) of the underlying models. Machine-validated subsystems admit wide, fast authority; reduced-order ones are clamped to reversible actions — an auditable rule where authority expands only as evidence does.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Security and Verification in Computing
Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 28 August 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Preprint