[SUPERSEDED] Maturity-Gated Actuation Authority - Trust Earned by Evidence
Priyanca Ford · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026
This record has been superseded. The current, updated version is Maturity-Gated Actuation Authority: Binding PCMM Verification Credibility to Runtime Control Authority in an Autonomous Fusion Control Stack (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22645795). Please read and cite the current version. This page stays online so existing citations keep resolving. A control-governance principle that makes trust quantitative: the actuation authority a controller or AI is permitted at runtime is a monotone function of the verification-and-validation maturity (PCMM level) of the underlying models. Machine-validated subsystems admit wide, fast authority; reduced-order ones are clamped to reversible actions — an auditable rule where authority expands only as evidence does.