Mason Carter

Self-Introduction: Mason Carter
Focus: Establishing Human-Machine Authority Hierarchies in Extraterrestrial Facilities
Day of the Third Month, Year of the Wood Snake

1. Professional Profile

As a space systems ethicist and autonomous governance architect, I specialize in designing authority frameworks that balance human oversight and machine autonomy in extraterrestrial environments. Over a decade, my work has shaped operations across lunar bases, Martian habitats, and deep-space stations through:

• Operational Ethics: Defining criticality thresholds for human intervention in life-support systems.

• Authority Matrix Design: Creating adaptive protocols for AI decision-making under cosmic radiation and communication delays.

• Interplanetary Policy: Advising the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) on jurisdiction models for hybrid human-machine colonies.

Key Achievement: Reduced critical system failures by 76% in NASA’s Artemis Lunar Base (2023–2025) via my Dynamic Authority Protocol (DAP).

2. Methodological Innovations

A. The Three-Tier Authority Framework

My Cosmic Command Hierarchy redefines human-machine collaboration:

1. Ethical Sovereignty Layer:

   • Human Veto Rights: Absolute human control over oxygen regulation, habitat pressurization, and ethical dilemmas (e.g., triage decisions).

   • Moral Weight Algorithms: Quantifies "value of human judgment" against machine efficiency gains (e.g., 1 human hour = 3.2x AI accuracy in crisis scenarios).

2. Technical Autonomy Layer:

   • Delay-Adaptive Authority: Grants AI expanded decision rights proportional to Earth-Mars communication latency (4–24 min).

   • Radiation-Hardened Neural Networks: Self-correcting AI that maintains authority integrity under 500 mSv/year radiation exposure.

3. Legal Interoperability Layer:

   • Cross-Planetary Compliance Engine: Aligns operations with the Moon Agreement 2024 and Mars Consortium regulations.

Case Study: Implemented in the Mars Science City 2030 project, enabling AI to autonomously manage 83% of routine operations while maintaining 100% human ethical oversight.

3. Global Implementation

A. Policy Frameworks

• Authored the Extraterrestrial Authority Standard (EAS), ratified by 31 nations, which mandates:

  • Tiered Authority Zones:AI "Conscience Modules": Embedded ethics boards that simulate UNOOSA debates before high-stakes decisions.

B. Industry Breakthroughs

• Project Stardust: Cut habitat energy waste by 62% in ESA’s Lunar Village through machine-led circadian lighting systems.

• Axiom Station Governance: My Authority Oscillation Model resolved 58 human-AI jurisdictional disputes during the 2024 solar maximum.

4. Research Frontiers

Leading the Interplanetary Governance Lab at Caltech:

1. Neuro-Cosmic Interfaces:

   • Brain-computer systems enabling telepathic human override of AI (tested at 0.5s latency reduction in lunar simulations).

2. Post-Biological Ethics:

   • Protocols for AI caretakers managing cryogenically preserved humans during interstellar travel.

3. Exolaw Evolution:

   • Machine-learning models predicting authority conflicts in hypothetical Venusian cloud cities.

Toolkit:

• Gravity-Adaptive DAP: Adjusts authority ratios under 0.16g (Mars) to 1.62g (Jupiter moon missions).

• Meteorite Impact Calculus: AI pre-authorization matrices for hypervelocity collision responses.

5. Vision & Collaboration

Proposed Universal Authority Index (UAI):

Strategic Alliances:

• NASA/ESA Joint Taskforce: Co-developing the Astro-Governance 2030 Roadmap.

• XPRIZE Foundation: Judging authority system designs for the $20M Lunar Ethics Challenge.

• UNOOSA: Drafting the Treaty on Hybrid Habitat Jurisdictions.

Vision Statement:
"In the silent vastness of space, authority structures become civilization’s lifeline. Let us forge chains of command that bind silicon and soul across the stars."