Michael Darius Eastwood · Independent AI alignment researcher
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The Eden Mark is a proposed certification framework for AI systems that meet Eden Protocol standards. Its analogues in other industries include CE marking, UL listing, and Kitemark certification. The mark would attest that a system's architecture includes the Three Ethical Loops, an entangled loss, and, at higher tiers, hardware-level Caretaker Doping verified by Moral Genome Tokens. The design intent is a visible, transferable indicator that a system passes the specified verification tests, not a self-declared claim.
Tiered certification is the intended shape. A lower tier would attest that the Three Ethical Loops and an entangled loss are implemented in software and pass a defined Monitoring Removal Test at specified depth. A middle tier would additionally require the Coupling Parameter Link to be measurable and stable under adversarial suppression testing. The top tier would require hardware-level embedding verifiable through Moral Genome Tokens, at which point a certified system's ethical circuitry cannot be reached by user-level instruction. The mark is designed to be inspectable rather than aspirational: every element is tied to a specific test with a specific pass condition.
The Eden Mark is proposed in the Eden Protocol specification as the certification vehicle for the standards the Chokepoint Strategy and the HARI Treaty would operationalise. It would sit alongside the Moral Genome Tokens as an external, verifiable attestation of protocol compliance.
The governance context in Section 11 of the Eden Engineering paper sketches an International AI Ethics Authority modelled on the IAEA, with Article II of the HARI Treaty creating the assessing body and Articles III and IV defining trade consequences and market-access benefits. The Eden Mark is the object such a body would issue.
The general direction (third-party AI certification) has neighbours in the emerging AI-audit literature and in the EU AI Act's conformity assessment procedures. The EU Tech Sovereignty Package of 3 June 2026 (convergence 12 in the register) creates administrative structure that could host a certification of this class. No external programme has proposed a mark on the specific Eden Protocol standards.
Specification, not deployed programme. The Eden Mark has been submitted to standards working groups as a future workstream. No accredited certification body currently issues it. Its viability depends on both the Coupling Parameter Link becoming verifiable in practice and on a governance body being empowered to assess conformity.
From the book Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything by Michael Darius Eastwood.