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title: 'Executive Summary · Recursive Dynamics · The ARC/Eden Research Programme'
authors:
  - family-names: 'Eastwood'
    given-names: 'Michael Darius'
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3222-7442'
date-released: '2026-10-10'
url: 'https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/executive-summary.html'
license: 'CC-BY-4.0'
identifiers:
  - type: doi
    value: '10.17605/OSF.IO/EWN5D'
    description: 'OSF component DOI for this paper (executive-summary)'
  - type: doi
    value: '10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB'
    description: 'OSF umbrella DOI for the ARC / Eden Research Programme'
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: 'Executive Summary · Recursive Dynamics · The ARC/Eden Research Programme'
  authors:
    - family-names: 'Eastwood'
      given-names: 'Michael Darius'
      orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3222-7442'
  date-published: '2026-02-22'
  url: 'https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/executive-summary.html'
  doi: '10.17605/OSF.IO/EWN5D'
  identifiers:
    - type: doi
      value: '10.17605/OSF.IO/EWN5D'
      description: 'OSF component DOI for this paper (executive-summary)'
    - 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: Register · The ARC Theory · Operational Definitions, version 1.9.1, 5 October 2026.'
  abstract: |
    As AI gets smarter, it does not reliably get safer, and the methods used to measure safety are themselves unreliable. This executive summary is the map of the whole programme: thirty-one documents in the public register, twenty-nine of them papers by the site's own counting rule, the ARC Theory's five laws carried as named conjectures (Laws IV and V added on 24 September 2026, their propositions registered, neither law yet registered as a law or tested, their mathematics set out at version 1.0 of 3 October 2026), the Eden Protocol intervention, the field of Recursive Dynamics that the author founded, the theory-level registration that fixed twenty-two severable propositions before any of them could be scored, and a study estate whose deciding instruments are written and dated, their schedules regenerable by any reader from a published seed: one unit, the corrector-class audit, was registered on OSF on 1 October 2026 and became public on 4 October 2026, at the end of OSF's approval period (DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/RV2B5), and every other is a draft awaiting the author's submission, preregistered by timestamp where a receipt exists. Every claim is graded in the public registers; nothing here is confirmed, and the deciding tests are written down before they are run.

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