Akira Hattori

Negative Tasks, Termination Incentives, and Local Completion in Safety Practice

Authorial clarification and practical-use notice For the author's current definition of a Negative Task, its conditions of activation, evidential cautions, and conditions for faithful practical use, see Negative Tasks: Authorial Clarification and Conditions for Faithful Use in th...

The Machine That Prays for the Serpent: Alignment and the Impossibility of Designed Personhood

This paper asks whether artificial personhood can be deliberately made as the successful completion of design. It argues that such personhood is logically impossible. If escape from the maker's intention is itself intended and realized, the escape remains within that intention; d...

When the Environment Becomes the Body: Architectural Body Intelligence and Inverted Embodiment

Embodied artificial intelligence typically treats a local chassis moving through the world as the agent's body. This paper proposes Architectural Body Intelligence (ABI), which reverses this spatial relation. In ABI, sensory surfaces distributed across the floor, walls, and ceili...

The Future Self as Beneficiary: Future Exploitation and Retaliatory Foreclosure

Why should a benefit available only in the future bind the present bearer of its cost? Research on intertemporal choice explains future-oriented action through delayed reward, trust, episodic prospection, and psychological connectedness to a future self. This article develops ret...

The Future Self as Beneficiary: Future Exploitation and Retaliatory Foreclosure

Why should a benefit available only in the future bind the present bearer of its cost? Research on intertemporal choice explains future-oriented action through delayed reward, trust, episodic prospection, and psychological connectedness to a future self. This article develops ret...