HAIAL

Human-Centered AI Alliance

HAIAL exists to address a simple but urgent question:

What happens to human dignity and participation as AI systems scale?

Artificial intelligence is not neutral. It reflects the values embedded in its design and deployment.

HAIAL exists to make those values explicit.

Why HAIAL exists

Most AI systems today are built around a narrow set of incentives:

• efficiency

• scale

• cost reduction

• automation for its own sake

When these become the default goals, predictable outcomes follow:

✗ human judgment is removed

✗ accountability becomes unclear

✗ economic participation shrinks

✗ power concentrates

These outcomes are often treated as inevitable.

They are not.

They are the result of design choices.

HAIAL exists to challenge the assumption that progress requires replacing people.

What HAIAL is

HAIAL is a distributed alliance focused on human-centered AI.

It promotes a different default:

✓ AI as augmentation, not substitution

✓ humans as participants, not residuals

✓ understanding over opacity

✓ responsibility over automation drift

HAIAL is not a regulator. It is not a standards body in the bureaucratic sense.

It is a shared orientation for how AI should be designed, adopted, and evaluated.

What human-centered AI means in practice

Human-centered AI systems:

✓ keep human judgment visible

✓ allow meaningful intervention and override

✓ make decisions explainable

✓ preserve responsibility rather than dissolving it

This does not mean rejecting automation.

It means refusing automation that removes humans by default.

Who HAIAL is for

HAIAL is for:

• technologists

• system designers

• institutions

• community leaders

• policymakers

Especially those asking:

? How do we deploy AI without eroding livelihoods?

? How do we scale intelligence without losing accountability?

? How do we ensure technology serves people, not the reverse?

HAIAL is intentionally cross-cultural and cross-sector.

Its principles apply wherever AI affects human lives.

Relationship to RoboHen

HAIAL defines orientation. RoboHen implements infrastructure.

HAIAL asks:

What should AI preserve?

RoboHen answers:

How do we build systems that actually do that?

They are complementary, not interchangeable.

Relationship to BangNano and FAIR Economy

Within the broader body of work:

1 BangNano focuses on community-scale economic participation

2 FAIR Economy addresses institutional economic structure

3 HAIAL ensures that intelligence systems do not undermine either

Without human-centered AI, economic systems drift toward exclusion, even when intentions are good.

HAIAL exists to prevent that drift.

What HAIAL is not

HAIAL is not:

✗ anti-AI

✗ anti-technology

✗ a religious authority

✗ a centralized organization

It does not impose belief. It clarifies consequences.

Orientation and continuity

HAIAL is designed as a network, not a hierarchy.

Local chapters, institutions, and practitioners adapt shared principles to:

✓ cultural context

✓ economic realities

✓ regulatory environments

This allows coherence without uniformity.

Artificial intelligence will shape the future of work, wealth, and participation.

The question is not whether AI will advance.

The question is whether people will remain central as it does.

HAIAL exists to keep that question open, explicit, and actionable.