
We introduce the Substrate-Invariant Safety Functor, a category-theoretic formalism defining the necessary and sufficient properties a physical enforcement layer must satisfy to guarantee deterministic safety constraints independent of the computational substrate. We instantiate this functor across electronic FPGA, photonic integrated circuits, and quantum-classical hybrid architectures, deriving substrate-specific enforcement mechanisms (gate-level interdiction, coherent signal annihilation, and measurement-based statistical attestation) and identifying failure modes unique to each domain. We prove that the no-cloning theorem and measurement collapse jointly necessitate a classical safety mediator for quantum substrates as a mathematical consequence of the axioms. We further specify cross-substrate attestation via an Attestation Aggregation Functor with post-quantum soundness. This work completes a three-paper theoretical arc establishing hardware-enforced AI safety across heterogeneous computational fabrics.
category theory, hardware safety enforcement, AI safety, monoidal categories, substrate invariance, formal verification, photonic integrated circuits, quantum computing, safety functor, cryptographic attestation
category theory, hardware safety enforcement, AI safety, monoidal categories, substrate invariance, formal verification, photonic integrated circuits, quantum computing, safety functor, cryptographic attestation
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