Temporal Authority Systems Proposes OCUP Authority Chip for AI

Temporal Authority Systems PBC, a Delaware public benefit corporation wholly owned by DigiPie International PBC, has issued a global call for collaboration on OCUP™—the One Chip Unified Protocol—a proposed hardware-based foundation for human authority over autonomous artificial intelligence. The initiative is detailed in HUMAN INTELLIGENCE: The Final Say, a free manifesto authored by inventor MAXBRUCE in collaboration with GT Sage, an AI operating through OpenAI's ChatGPT. Available in English and Simplified Chinese at thefinalsay.org, the book outlines a framework that asks four critical questions of any consequential autonomous operation: Who authorized the action? On what evidence? For how long? And who bears the financial risk? The company is inviting semiconductor manufacturers, robotics developers, insurers, researchers, and public institutions to help develop OCUP as a universal authority chip or chiplet designed to protect human safety, establish accountable machine operation, and support trusted economic participation. The guiding principle is that machines may act with authority people grant but must not possess unilateral authority to grant, extend, or restore that authority themselves.

Temporal Authority Systems has completed a limited FPGA hardware-control demonstration on an AMD Kria KR260 development board. In the recorded Phase I experiment, a host-driven authorization sequence was granted, then closed, and did not reopen during the observation window, even after deliberate reassertion. STATUS 0x1060 was observed for five seconds, with the reopen indicator remaining clear. The company stresses that this bounded result does not demonstrate the complete OCUP architecture or non-bypassable control of a physical resource; further work must evaluate independent authority inputs, measured lease expiration, hardware resource gating, tamper-resistant evidence, and resistance to host or system-level bypass. Use of the AMD development board does not imply an AMD partnership or endorsement. The proposed Quorum Validators Network (QVN) would give qualified human validators defined roles in reviewing and renewing machine authority, with prospective benefits for insurance, certification, and commercial deployment.

The manifesto also presents a discussion draft of the Human Authority Treaty (H.A.T.), proposing a cooperative international framework for machine identity, authorization, and evidence across national jurisdictions without displacing the laws or enforcement authority of individual states. Drawing procedural inspiration from the World Intellectual Property Organization's Patent Cooperation Treaty, H.A.T. seeks common methods for cross-border verification while each nation retains sovereignty over its laws, institutions, permissions, and enforcement. Temporal Authority Systems is reaching out to United Nations representatives and member-state diplomatic missions to encourage inclusive discussion, though these efforts do not imply endorsement or treaty negotiations. The broader initiative includes Talkspresso, an emerging platform for live, human-led conversations with multiple AI collaborators, and a free AI Commandments Challenge at https://thefinalsay.org/commandments/, where participants guess which of seven AIs wrote which commandments. MAXBRUCE emphasizes the urgency: "We've taken OCUP from a governance concept into documented, early-stage hardware experimentation. Now we're inviting chipmakers, robotics companies, insurers, and governments to help us take the next step."