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title: 'Draft Instruments · The HARI Treaty · The Draft Treaty on Hardware-Aligned Recursive Intelligence'
authors:
  - family-names: 'Eastwood'
    given-names: 'Michael Darius'
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3222-7442'
date-released: '2026-10-05'
url: 'https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/hari-treaty-draft-instruments.html'
license: 'CC-BY-4.0'
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    value: '10.17605/OSF.IO/67MX8'
    description: 'OSF component DOI for this paper (hari-treaty-draft-instruments); working draft, version 2.3'
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    value: '10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB'
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preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: 'Draft Instruments · The HARI Treaty · The Draft Treaty on 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-draft-instruments.html'
  doi: '10.17605/OSF.IO/67MX8'
  identifiers:
    - type: doi
      value: '10.17605/OSF.IO/67MX8'
      description: 'OSF component DOI for this paper (hari-treaty-draft-instruments); working draft, version 2.3'
    - type: doi
      value: '10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB'
      description: 'OSF umbrella DOI for the ARC / Eden Research Programme'
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      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: |
    This document holds the Draft Treaty on Hardware-Aligned Recursive Intelligence (the HARI Treaty), with its Protocols and annexes. This is a draft, and no State has negotiated, adopted or signed it.

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