Lucas Bennett

Self-Introduction: Lucas Bennett
Focus: AI Governance Framework for Lunar Base Operations
Date: April 3, 2025 (Thursday) | 16:24 GMT+8 | Lunar Calendar: 6th Day of the Third Month, Year of the Wood Snake

1. Professional Profile

As a lunar governance architect and AI systems ethicist, I have pioneered the development of ethical and operational frameworks for AI-human collaboration in extraterrestrial environments. Over 12 years, my work has focused on ensuring the safety, efficiency, and ethical integrity of AI systems in lunar habitats through:

• Authority Hierarchies: Defining jurisdiction boundaries between AI and human operators in life-critical systems.

• Risk Mitigation Protocols: Designing fail-safe mechanisms for AI decision-making under lunar conditions (e.g., extreme temperatures, communication delays).

• Interplanetary Policy: Advising the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) on AI accountability in the Artemis Accords 2025.

Key Achievement: Reduced AI-related operational incidents by 72% in the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) through my Lunar Command Priority Matrix (LCPM).

2. Methodological Innovations

A. The Lunar AI Governance Framework

My Four-Pillar Authority System ensures ethical and efficient AI management:

1. Ethical Sovereignty Layer:

   • Human Supremacy Clause: Mandates human control over life-support systems, habitat pressurization, and emergency protocols.

   • Moral Override Thresholds: AI must seek human approval for decisions impacting >0.1% of base sustainability metrics.

2. Operational Autonomy Layer:

   • Delay-Compensated Authority: Grants AI expanded rights during Earth-Moon communication blackouts (e.g., 34-minute latency periods).

   • Regolith-Adaptive Algorithms: Self-optimizing systems for resource extraction and radiation shielding (e.g., 98% accuracy in lunar soil processing).

3. Legal Interoperability Layer:

   • Cross-Jurisdictional Compliance Engine: Aligns operations with the Moon Treaty 2024 and NASA/ESA bilateral agreements.

4. Ethical Audit Layer:

   • AI "Conscience Logs": Blockchain-based records of all ethical dilemmas encountered, reviewed biweekly by multinational ethics boards.

Case Study: Implemented in the ESA’s Lunar Village Alpha, enabling AI to autonomously manage 88% of routine operations while maintaining 100% human ethical oversight during solar flare events.

3. Global Implementation

A. Policy Frameworks

• Authored the Lunar AI Governance Standard (LAGS), ratified by 29 spacefaring nations, which mandates:

  • Three-Zone Authority Distribution:Ethical Review Cycles: Daily AI decision audits using quantum-encrypted logs.

B. Industry Applications

• Project Selene: Reduced energy waste by 64% in Blue Origin’s lunar habitat through AI-managed circadian lighting and oxygen recycling.

• ILRS Conflict Resolution: Resolved 132 human-AI jurisdictional disputes using my Gravity-Weighted Decision Calculus (1/6th Earth gravity adaptation).

4. Research Frontiers

Leading the Lunar Ethics Consortium at MIT:

1. Telepathic Override Systems:

   • Brain-machine interfaces enabling sub-2-second human intervention in AI operations (tested in simulated lunar lava tube environments).

2. Post-Catastrophe Protocols:

   • AI contingency plans for meteorite impacts, including triage algorithms aligned with the Hague Space Ethics Convention.

3. Cultural Adaptation Modules:

   • Integrating Confucian harmony principles and Ubuntu communalism into lunar construction AI for multinational crews.

Toolkit:

• Regolith Ethics Simulator: Stress-tests AI systems against 500+ lunar-specific ethical scenarios (e.g., water rationing during supply shortages).

• Cosmic Radiation Neural Nets: Self-healing AI architectures maintaining <0.001% error rates under 200 mSv/year exposure.