Research Programme

This research programme examines the governance of autonomous action: why it becomes necessary when software produces consequences rather than outputs, how authority must be evaluated at the execution boundary, and why this governance layer converges into shared infrastructure.

Foundations

Conceptual foundations establishing why governance of autonomous action must become a runtime architectural property.

Foundation

The Governance of Autonomous Action

Authority Drift and the Execution Boundary

A foundations paper establishing why governance of autonomous action must move from institutional processes into runtime architecture.

Art Harol

Architecture

Technical research on the architecture and mechanisms of execution governance.

White Paper

From Confused Deputies to Execution Governance

Authority, Capability Systems, and the Control Plane of Autonomous Systems

Tracing the intellectual lineage from confused deputies through capability-based security to execution governance — the architectural layer required to govern autonomous action at the execution boundary.

Art Harol

Infrastructure Theses

Long-form arguments for why execution governance becomes inevitable infrastructure.

Thesis

The Ambit Infrastructure Thesis

Governance of Autonomous AI Action: Why the Authorisation Layer Becomes Inevitable

A companion to the Ambit research white paper explaining why governance of autonomous AI action converges on an independent authorisation layer.

Art Harol