DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18288248
title: A.X.I.O.M-Ω™ Decision Existence Control: A Canonical Authority Architecture for Preventing Irreversible Civilizational Outcomes

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A.X.I.O.M-Ω™ — Decision Existence ControlA Canonical Authority Architecture for Preventing Irreversible Civilizational Outcomes

A.X.I.O.M-Ω™ presents a foundational governance framework that introduces Decision Existence Control—the formal authority to determine whether a decision is permitted to exist at all. Departing from conventional governance, ethics, and AI-safety approaches that regulate how decisions are made, this framework governs the prior and more fundamental question of whether a decision may be formed, activated, or executed.

The framework establishes legally, technologically, and institutionally enforceable mechanisms for non-decision authority, temporal sovereignty, and irreversibility prevention. It addresses systemic failures that arise not from faulty intent or poor reasoning, but from uncontrollable speed, automation, emergence, and execution beyond recovery thresholds. A.X.I.O.M-Ω™ is designed for environments in which a single action can exceed human, legal, or civilizational capacity for reversal.

At its core lies a first-principle doctrine: not all decisions should be improved; some decisions must be rendered impossible. This principle is formalized through the Decision Existence Doctrine (DED-Ω), which defines legitimacy conditions for any decision. If execution crosses an irreversible threshold, exceeds human-governable speed, escapes legal accountability, or lacks structural reversibility, the decision must not exist.

The framework is operationalized through a six-layer canonical architecture:



Existence Threshold Governance — objective, enforceable limits that prohibit decision formation beyond defined thresholds.

Non-Decision Authority (NDA-Ω) — formal authority to halt action without proposing alternatives or escalations.

Temporal Sovereignty Control — governance of delay, pause, suspension, and time-lock over decision activation.

Machine Refusal and Obedience Protocols — binding conditions under which intelligent systems must refuse commands.

Irreversibility Firewall — prevention of actions crossing points of no return across technological, legal, ecological, institutional, or civilizational domains.

Post-Human Accountability Matrix — assignment of responsibility and liability when outcomes emerge from system interaction, automation, or speed rather than human intent.


A.X.I.O.M-Ω™ addresses failures unserved by existing models, including intelligent systems acting correctly yet catastrophically, executive authority overwhelmed by automated scale, liability without malicious intent, and the inability of institutions or societies to pause their own momentum.

This work constitutes a closed, proprietary canonical framework. No rights for reuse, redistribution, derivative development, institutional adoption, or commercial implementation are granted without explicit prior written authorization from the author.

Author: Dr. B. MazumdarIndependent Researcher–Scholar (AI Governance, Cybersecurity, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Digital Statecraft)Founder, FAIR+D CanonORCID: 0009-0007-5615-3558

Edition: MazumdarCanon Edition V1.0 (2026)Status: Proprietary Canonical FrameworkDOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18288248

Canonical Statement:The future will not collapse because of bad decisions. It will collapse because no one had the authority to stop them. A.X.I.O.M-Ω™ exists to grant that authority.