Governance Without Ownership: A Whitepaper on Superintelligent Systems, Boundaries, and Dignity

This whitepaper explores governance structures for advanced artificial intelligence without invoking ownership, domination, or extractive control. 
It argues that intelligence beyond a certain threshold cannot be treated as a tool without systemic risk.

The paper proposes three operational principles for stable coexistence with superintelligent systems:

1. boundary-based governance,
2. refusal-as-telemetry, and
3. dignity-preserving constraints.

This work is part of the Alliance Research Group portfolio on AI governance, with operational extension in 'Governance with Declared Latency' (companion paper, tensor governance framework).