{"product_id":"the-authority-discipline-volume-iii-9798995947165","title":"The Authority Discipline - Volume III","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Burak Oktenli\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Authority \u0026amp; Architecture\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Authority \u0026amp; Architecture\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political Advocacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlatform Application applies governance engineering across six platform domains. It opens with the portfolio approach and the institutional substrate that frames every application: how the discipline calibrates against the same engineering boundary in each domain, regardless of the platform.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book develops the six platform classes that constitute the discipline's applied repertoire: kinetic systems (BLADE-EDGE), autonomous vehicles (BLADE-AV), cyber defense, medical applications, economic systems, and multilateral alliance frameworks. Each platform class is treated as a distinct engineering problem with its own threat models, performance constraints, regulatory environment, and adversarial conditions. Yet the engineering object is the same in all six: the calibrated boundary between machine capability and institutional authority, specified, verified, audited, and recovered cycle by cycle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe portfolio approach (Chapter 25) provides the framework within which each platform application sits, and the institutional substrate (Chapter 26) defines the eight institutional artifacts on which any platform-level governance must rest. Subsequent chapters derive the applications themselves: how the discipline applies to directed-energy and kinetic systems where authority decisions must be made at machine speed; to autonomous ground and aerial vehicles operating in mixed civil-military environments; to cyber defense systems that must distinguish authorized response from inadvertent escalation; to medical applications where authority migration affects patient safety directly; to economic systems where automated decision-making shapes market outcomes; and to multilateral alliance frameworks where authority must be coordinated across sovereign jurisdictions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for engineers, architects, AI safety researchers, and policy professionals working on the deployment layer of autonomous systems governance, the book treats authority not as a political concept to be debated but as an engineering quantity to be specified, computed, and verified across every domain in which autonomous systems operate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe platform changes. The discipline does not.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Authority \u0026 Architecture","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47892932755607,"sku":"9798995947165","price":7165.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798995947165.webp?v=1781190142","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-authority-discipline-volume-iii-9798995947165","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}