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On Deadline¶

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The Work¶

The systems that act on their own are governed by the parties that operate them. That is the gap.

My perspective comes from working across the autonomy continuum: automation to autonomy to AI, from underwater and airborne robotics through RF and spectrum sensing to cybersecurity and digital AI agents.

I build the independent measurement layer, the instrument that grades governance quality from verifiable evidence rather than self-attestation, and the doctrine that says why an operator cannot be its own scorekeeper.

The chair has been created. The measuring stick has not.

Pharns Genece works as an independent researcher on measurement and governance for autonomous systems — AI agents and physical autonomous systems under one architecture. He is a U.S. Air Force veteran. The public-facing work is published under AAM Cyber.

Five provisional patent applications on file with the USPTO. Filing receipts available to editors on request.

Available To Comment On¶

AI governance, autonomous AI agents, AI accountability, runtime assurance, independent measurement, AI kill switches and loss-of-control detection, cyber-physical autonomy, drones and autonomous systems, and governance failures involving physical or digital autonomous systems.

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In His Own Words¶

"AI should not govern AI, first and foremost." — Law I of the Five Laws of AI Governance

"Governance has to sit in the loop, before the action, or it is not governance. It is a report." — Law II of the Five Laws of AI Governance

"A control that depends on the thing it governs isn't a control."

"A system can be perfectly governed into doing something reckless if the grant itself was reckless. The laws are necessary. They are not sufficient. Compliant is not safe." — On the limits of the Five Laws of AI Governance

Verifiable Record¶

Every line in this section is checkable without contacting him.

NIST OLIR catalog¶

Listed in the NIST OLIR catalog as a final informative reference mapping to each of the following focal documents:

Authoring organization on the published pages: AAM Cyber. Catalog: csrc.nist.gov/projects/olir/informative-reference-catalog.

OLIR listing is an informative reference, not a NIST endorsement.

Published research¶

Permanent, citable, and licensed CC BY 4.0.

Genece, P. (2026). The Five Laws of AI Governance. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21271749

Genece, P. (2026). SDOS Runtime Governance Framework: Control Catalog and Framework Alignment Library, Version 1.10. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22787187

Concept DOIs for citing the evolving work: 10.5281/zenodo.21271749 and 10.5281/zenodo.22787186.

ORCID: orcid.org/0009-0009-0791-4124.

Trademark¶

AQ SCORE™ filed with the USPTO in IC 042 (Serial 99850714).

Framework coverage¶

300+ compliance control mappings across 17 framework alignments, including NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and the EU AI Act.

Education¶

M.S. Cybersecurity and Information Assurance — Western Governors University, in progress
B.S. Cybersecurity and Information Assurance — Western Governors University

Selected Writing¶

Canonical text lives at aamcyber.com.

Where To Find The Work¶

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Contact¶

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