HAIAL
Governance for human-centered artificial intelligence
The Human-Centered AI Alliance, HAIAL, is a governance initiative focused on ensuring that artificial intelligence systems strengthen human economic participation rather than replacing it.
HAIAL treats AI outcomes as a question of system design and governance, not inevitability or purely technical optimization.
Why HAIAL exists
Artificial intelligence is often deployed with efficiency, scale, and cost reduction as primary goals. When these become the dominant incentives, AI systems tend to displace human participation, concentrate power, and obscure accountability.
These outcomes are not inherent to the technology. They are the result of design choices made without explicit human-centered constraints.
HAIAL exists to make a different set of defaults explicit:
- AI as augmentation rather than substitution
- humans as participants rather than residuals
- governance before scale
What HAIAL does
HAIAL focuses on creating the conditions under which AI can be deployed responsibly and economically.
In practice, this includes:
- articulating principles for human-centered AI design
- developing governance standards for AI deployment
- supporting local chapters that adapt principles to regional contexts
- facilitating dialogue between technologists, institutions, and communities
The emphasis is on alignment, not acceleration.
How HAIAL aligns with the Human-Centered Systems Manifesto
HAIAL directly implements manifesto principles in the AI domain.
- Dignity before efficiency by preserving human agency in AI-driven systems
- Incentives over intentions through governance that shapes deployment behavior
- Transparency in automated decision-making and accountability
- Humans remain central as a non-negotiable design constraint
It treats AI governance as essential infrastructure rather than optional oversight.
Role within the broader system
HAIAL provides the governance layer that connects ethical principles to technological execution.
It:
- informs how AI is used within economic systems such as BangNano and FAIR-aligned institutions
- complements automation infrastructure like RoboHen
- creates a shared baseline for AI deployment across sectors and regions
Without governance, infrastructure outruns values. HAIAL exists to prevent that gap.
Orientation and continuity
HAIAL is designed as a distributed alliance rather than a centralized authority. Local chapters adapt shared principles to local economic, cultural, and regulatory contexts.
This structure allows the alliance to scale without uniformity and evolve without losing coherence.
Closing
HAIAL exists to ensure that artificial intelligence remains a tool for human prosperity rather than a mechanism of exclusion.
It frames AI not as an unstoppable force, but as a system whose impact depends on how deliberately it is governed.