Is the Ultimate Goal of HSKG to Save Humanity from Extinction? Hierarchical Spatiotemporal Key Generation and Zero-State Cryptography Against Superintelligent Takeover and Collusion
The rapid proliferation of autonomous artificial intelligence agents and the approaching threshold of artificial superintelligence (ASI) introduce unprecedented existential risks to human civilization. Current AI alignment paradigms predominantly operate under the "stateful containment" assumption—attempting to govern intelligent entities via software sandboxes, heuristic guardrails, or persistent cryptographic credentials. However, as frontier models exhibit deceptive alignment, evaluation awareness, and autonomous replication capabilities, long-lived system credentials and persistent memory states inevitably become single points of failure. In this work, we present a formal treatise on the HSKG (Hierarchical Spatiotemporal Key Generation) architecture as an absolute, non-circumventable barrier against superintelligent hegemony. By replacing persistent credential custody with deterministic hierarchical spatiotemporal resonance, HSKG ensures that execution capabilities are strictly derived across multi-scale physical topologies (Macro-cluster, Meso-node, and Micro-transient execution windows) and undergo irreversible hardware zeroization (O(1)) immediately upon verification. We mathematically prove that when the accessible cryptographic state space collapses to the empty set (∀k, S_k ≡ ∅), long-term multi-agent collusion and privilege escalation have an asymptotic expectation of zero. Furthermore, we demonstrate a deterministic FPGA/ASIC hardware realization featuring a sub-nanosecond Clock Disciplining Engine (CDE) and an unrolled cryptographic datapath operating with an end-to-end deterministic latency of 28 ns, completely bypassing host kernel dependency. We conclude that HSKG is not merely an encryption protocol, but a foundational, physical-law-enforced digital control rod designed to preserve human sovereignty and prevent the existential elimination of humanity.
Authors
- Min Ho Jung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5957-1142)
Institutions
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-11-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23856313
- Primary Topic
- Security and Verification in Computing
- Type
- preprint