Principia Corvi: Human Sovereignty in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Principia Corvi: Human Sovereignty in the Age of Artificial Intelligence introduces a normative philosophical framework for preserving human sovereignty as increasingly capable artificial intelligence systems mediate knowledge, influence decisions, and participate in human institutions.

The framework distinguishes epistemic authority from decision and sovereign authority and defines human sovereignty as the capacity to remain an accountable participant in the authorship of consequential judgment and action. It organizes seven principles - Origin, Reality, Consent, Exit, Plurality, Surprise, and Unknown - across three domains: knowing responsibly, choosing meaningfully, and preserving possibility.

The paper situates Principia Corvi within traditions of autonomy, epistemology, political theory, human-computer interaction, and AI governance. Its proposed contributions include relational sovereignty under computational mediation, an intelligence-authority distinction, contestability as an extension of exit, and the preservation of “unoptimized possibility” as a condition of continuing human self-authorship.

Principia Corvi is presented as a revisable philosophical framework rather than a completed doctrine, and the paper identifies limitations, objections, and a future research agenda for its further development.