Hardware-Enforced Compute Governance: Cryptographic Attestation, Scaling Law Thresholds, and the Future of AI Regulation
Executive Takeaway: Emerging AI chip governance frameworks do not necessitate mass surveillance or pervasive runtime telemetry. Instead, technical architectures for compute verification rely on silicon-level cryptographic primitives—such as Hardware Roots of Trust (RoT), Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs), and zero-knowledge compute proofs—to enforce threshold governance (e.g., $10^{26}$ total FLOPs) without inspecting model weights, activations, or dataset […]