Certifying Autonomous Lethal Decision-Making
Autonomy and accountability are not in tension when intent is the unit of command. KhanBMS makes every lethal action traceable to a human Khan.
The hardest question in modern BMS design is not technical — it is moral and legal. How do you certify that an autonomous system's lethal action was lawful?
KhanBMS answers this through cryptographic intent provenance. Every lethal action executed by an Arban is traceable, in an audit log no node can forge, to the signed Tumen-level intent issued by a named human Khan. The autonomy is bounded by rules of engagement encoded into the intent envelope itself.
This is not a workaround — it is a stronger accountability model than most crewed systems offer today. The human remains responsible for the intent. The machine is responsible only for faithful execution within bounded authority. Certification becomes tractable because the boundary is explicit.