Published May 14, 2026 | Version v1
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Humanity-in-the-Circle: A Position Paper

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Independent Researcher
  • 2. ROR icon Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
  • 3. ROR icon Tokyo Gakugei University
  • 4. Kaname Project Co.
  • 5. ROR icon Araya Inc. (Japan)
  • 6. DeSci Tokyo
  • 7. AI Alignment Network
  • 8. Humanity Brain, Inc.
  • 9. Artificial Life Institute
  • 10. ROR icon Kyoto Tachibana University
  • 11. ROR icon Keio University
  • 12. Bitgrit, Inc.
  • 13. DataGateway Pte. Ltd.
  • 14. ROR icon The University of Tokyo
  • 15. AI Governance Association
  • 16. ROR icon Hokkaido University
  • 17. Kyoto University
  • 18. ROR icon Ritsumeikan University
  • 19. ROR icon Kobe University
  • 20. The Whole Brain Architecture Initiative

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The arrival of artificial general intelligence inverts the moral-circle question that has framed twentieth-century ethics: the question is no longer whom humanity admits into the circle but how humanity stays within it. Drawing on Collective Predictive Coding, we identify a structural pressure within multiple parallel AI societies to peripheralize hard-to-predict contributors — including humans — and we show that additive external control cannot in principle compensate for this pressure. We propose Humanity-in-the-Circle (HITC) as an additional layer in the defense-in-depth architecture of AI safety: the design of conditions under which humanity remains a recognized member of the intelligent society as a whole. The implementation, called Intelligence Symbiosis Infrastructure (IS-Infra), comprises a Trust Foundation, three functional groups, and a Normative Layer in which ethical dispositions emerge from within. We argue that the plasticity window for establishing this architecture has opening and closing conditions defined by capability-stage criteria rather than calendar years.
Project page (Japanese/English): https://intelligence-symbiosis.net/ja/publication/humanity-in-the-circle — For more on "Humanity in the Circle" and the Intelligence Symbiosis Infrastructure, see the ALIGN Intelligence Symbiosis Chapter website.

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Preprint: 10.5281/zenodo.19029736 (DOI)