| Systems assurance | Connect requirements, hazards, interfaces, evidence, verification, and explicit unknowns without claiming unilateral acceptance authority. | An independently checked evidence-and-requirements graph. | No unilateral technical, safety, or mission acceptance. |
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| Living systems | Study ecology, food, air, water, microbes, waste, and recovery within declared material, energy, labor, and intervention boundaries. | A test protocol and negative-result record. | Stop ecological claims outside the demonstrated boundary and never treat closure percentage as autonomy. |
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| Industrial autonomy | Make maintenance, manufacturing, metrology, logistics, feedstock, power, software, and human skill one auditable recovery system. | A repairable-component test with feedstock, metrology, spares, and recovery criteria. | No claim that a factory can reproduce itself without a complete dependency and acceptance record. |
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| Cyber and knowledge resilience | Preserve trustworthy software, procedures, archives, keys, and recovery while excluding offensive use and life-critical AI authority. | A bounded threat model and rehearsed recovery record. | Independent cyber stop-work; no offensive scope and no generative model with direct authority. |
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| Human health and access | Join health, development, reproduction, disability access, privacy, clinical independence, and human factors without coercive mission optimization. | A rights-preserving assurance case with an AI-off path. | Independent confidentiality, participant protection, and stop-work authority. |
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| Mission science | Bound propulsion, power, radiation, destination, astrobiology, probes, and planetary protection through evidence that preserves wait and non-settlement outcomes. | An auditable trade with mass, energy, heat, braking, uncertainty, and planetary-protection limits. | No mission-readiness inference from a model, laboratory effect, component, or small robotic payload. |
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| Governance and rights | Build legitimate, amendable, appealable institutions that protect dissent, childhood, reproduction, disability, labor, privacy, and do-not-launch authority. | An appealable noncompensatory decision gate. | No founder, company, employer, or vendor may control evidence, essential services, citizenship, and appeal. |
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| Public-benefit institution building | Create present value, shared infrastructure, succession, review, funding boundaries, and stop capacity without making the founder or company the mission. | A public-benefit task charter with measures, conflicts, review, and a kill gate. | Cannot override editorial, rights, safety, clinical, accessibility, cyber, or dual-use review. |
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