AUREX-G: A Civilizational-Grade Meta-Governance Architecture for the Permanent Control of Super-Scale Intelligent Systems

Final Zenodo Description AUREX-G: A Meta-Governance Architecture for the Permanent Control of Super-Scale Intelligent Systems (Final Complete Edition, 2026) This work introduces AUREX-G (Authority, Universality, Restraint, Evolution, and eXit Governance), a definitive meta-governance architecture designed to ensure the permanent legitimacy, controllability, and stability of super-scale intelligent systems, autonomous institutions, and hybrid human–machine power structures operating across long temporal horizons. Departing from dominant approaches that frame artificial intelligence governance in terms of ethics, compliance, safety engineering, or system-level architectural control, AUREX-G advances a higher-order proposition: governance mechanisms themselves are subject to drift, authority concentration, legitimacy erosion, and eventual failure. As a result, long-term safety and stability cannot be achieved by governing intelligent systems alone; governance structures must themselves be structurally governable, mortal, and reversible. AUREX-G embeds governance-of-governance directly into architecture. It is explicitly failure-first, irreversibility-aware, and mortality-enforced by design. The framework introduces enforceable limits on authority accumulation, mandatory cycles of re-legitimation, continuous measurement of power concentration, structural reversibility requirements, and guaranteed exit, sunset, and succession pathways for high-impact systems and institutions. The architecture is technology-agnostic, legally and constitutionally compatible, analytically neutral, and future-proof by construction. It is designed for environments in which intelligence, capital, automation, and institutional authority compound faster than regulatory, legal, and democratic cycles—such as frontier AI laboratories, trillion-dollar enterprises, sovereign states, and multilateral institutions. AUREX-G is not a policy proposal, technical implementation, or speculative scenario. It is a civilizational-grade reference architecture intended to guide future research, institutional design, constitutional AI governance, strategic risk management, and international coordination over multi-decadal and civilizational time horizons. This record is intended for long-term archival, citation, and use as a foundational reference in advanced AI governance, meta-governance theory, institutional design science, and strategic policy development. Author:Dr. B. MazumdarIndependent Researcher–Scholar(Meta-Governance · AI Governance · Strategic Risk Architecture · Digital Statecraft)ORCID: 0009-0007-5615-3558 Citation Recommendation:Mazumdar, B. (2026). AUREX-G: A Meta-Governance Architecture for the Permanent Control of Super-Scale Intelligent Systems [Data set]. Zenodo. Keywords:Meta-Governance; AI Governance Architecture; Civilizational Risk; Authority Control; Irreversibility Management; Governability-by-Design; Institutional Mortality; Strategic AI Policy