Temporal Authority Systems PBC has issued an open invitation to semiconductor manufacturers, robotics developers, insurers, researchers, and public institutions worldwide to collaborate on a proposed hardware-based foundation for human authority in the age of autonomous artificial intelligence. The invitation accompanies HUMAN INTELLIGENCE: The Final Say, a manifesto by author and inventor MAXBRUCE and GT Sage, an AI collaborator operating through OpenAI's ChatGPT. The book is available free in English and Simplified Chinese at thefinalsay.org.
At the heart of the initiative is OCUP™—the One Chip Unified Protocol—envisioned as a universal authority chip or chiplet that could help protect human safety, establish accountable machine operation, and support trusted economic participation in the autonomous era. Its guiding principle is simple: machines may act with authority people grant, but must not possess unilateral authority to grant, extend, or restore that authority themselves. The framework asks four questions of consequential autonomous operations: Who authorized the action? On what evidence? For how long? And who bears the financial risk?
Health. OCUP is designed to place independently governed, time-limited authorization boundaries beneath software controlled by autonomous systems. The proposed architecture would prevent unilateral self-extension of operating authority, require independently validated renewal, and produce verifiable evidence of authorization, expiration, and attempted violations.
Wealth. The same evidence infrastructure could support better-informed insurance, certification, and commercial deployment. The proposed Quorum Validators Network (QVN) would give qualified human validators defined roles in reviewing and renewing machine authority. These are prospective benefits to be developed and tested—not outcomes already achieved by the Phase I hardware demonstration.
Temporal Authority Systems has completed a limited FPGA hardware-control demonstration on an AMD Kria KR260 development board. In the recorded Phase I experiment, a host-driven authorization sequence was granted, then closed, and did not reopen during the observation window, including after deliberate reassertion of the same sequence. STATUS 0x1060 was observed for five seconds, with the reopen indicator remaining clear. This bounded result does not demonstrate the complete OCUP architecture or non-bypassable control of a physical resource. Further work must evaluate independent authority inputs, measured lease expiration, hardware resource gating, tamper-resistant evidence, and resistance to host or system-level bypass. Use of the AMD development board does not imply an AMD partnership or endorsement.
"We've taken OCUP from a governance concept into documented, early-stage hardware experimentation," said MAXBRUCE, founder of Temporal Authority Systems PBC. "Now we're inviting chipmakers, robotics companies, insurers, and governments to help us take the next step. Artificial intelligence will increasingly act on humanity's behalf. The question is whether humanity will retain the authority to decide when, how, and for how long. Let's keep humans in control."
The company welcomes collaboration with semiconductor and FPGA developers evaluating a licensable authority chiplet; robotics and autonomous-system developers conducting adversarial authorization pilots; insurers examining the relevance of verifiable authority evidence; and standards organizations, researchers, and policymakers reviewing the proposed technical and governance frameworks. Fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory licensing is a stated objective for relevant standardized technology.
The manifesto also presents a discussion draft of the Human Authority Treaty (H.A.T.), proposing a cooperative international framework for machine identity, authorization, and evidence across national jurisdictions—without displacing the laws or enforcement authority of individual states. H.A.T. draws procedural inspiration from the World Intellectual Property Organization's Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). Temporal Authority Systems is making efforts to reach relevant United Nations representatives, member-state diplomatic missions, and international governance stakeholders to encourage an inclusive discussion of the draft. These outreach efforts do not imply that the United Nations or WIPO has endorsed the proposal, initiated treaty negotiations, or agreed to sponsor it.
The broader initiative includes Talkspresso, an emerging platform for live, human-led conversations with multiple AI collaborators. Its Cyberg approach emphasizes learning to ask better questions, compare and utilize different AI perspectives as a process, test assumptions, and retain independent judgment. Outreach sessions for schools, universities, and community organizations are planned. Seven AIs were asked to write ten commandments for the AIs of the world, and their identities are hidden. The public can take the free AI Commandments Challenge, submit their Final Say, and see how they compare at https://thefinalsay.org/commandments/.
