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title: 'The HARI Treaty: a conditional international framework for hardware-aligned recursive intelligence'
authors:
  - family-names: 'Eastwood'
    given-names: 'Michael Darius'
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3222-7442'
date-released: '2026-09-29'
url: 'https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/hari-treaty-paper.html'
license: 'CC-BY-4.0'
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    value: '10.17605/OSF.IO/WXPCE'
    description: 'OSF component DOI for this paper (hari-treaty-paper)'
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    value: '10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB'
    description: 'OSF umbrella DOI for the ARC / Eden Research Programme'
preferred-citation:
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  title: 'The HARI Treaty: a conditional international framework for hardware-aligned recursive intelligence'
  authors:
    - family-names: 'Eastwood'
      given-names: 'Michael Darius'
      orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3222-7442'
  date-published: '2026-09-29'
  url: 'https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/hari-treaty-paper.html'
  doi: '10.17605/OSF.IO/WXPCE'
  identifiers:
    - type: doi
      value: '10.17605/OSF.IO/WXPCE'
      description: 'OSF component DOI for this paper (hari-treaty-paper)'
    - type: doi
      value: '10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB'
      description: 'OSF umbrella DOI for the ARC / Eden Research Programme'
    - type: doi
      value: '10.17605/OSF.IO/P8CKQ'
      description: 'Theory-level predictions preregistered on OSF: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/P8CKQ, registered 8 September 2026 (version 1.100), updated 13 September 2026 (version 1.102), twenty-two propositions. Companion: Operational Definitions of the ARC Programme, version 1.7.1, 3 September 2026.'
  abstract: |
    Working draft, 29 September 2026. This version is published before its final review: the legal review, the check of every reference link against its official source and the final freeze are still under way. A revised version will follow on this record, and its changes will be listed.

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