Human Responsibility Preservation Standard (HRPS)

This publication introduces the Human Responsibility Preservation Standard (HRPS) — a non-delegable safety requirement for intelligent systems approaching or possessing general intelligence. HRPS formalizes a core safety invariant: responsibility, will, and final authority over action must remain exclusively human and cannot be transferred to an intelligent system, regardless of its cognitive capabilities, autonomy, or performance. Unlike ethical or alignment-based frameworks, HRPS defines a hard safety boundary, not a normative recommendation. The standard explicitly separates intelligence from agency and establishes that autonomous action, intrinsic goal formation, and responsibility attribution to systems are incompatible with safe deployment of general intelligence. The document does not propose algorithms, architectures, or implementation techniques. Its contribution is ontological and regulatory: the definition of a safety standard under which advanced intelligence may be deployed without introducing new autonomous actors into the world. HRPS is designed to be implementation-agnostic and applicable across neural, symbolic, hybrid, or emergent systems. It is intended for use in AI safety research, regulatory frameworks, governance discussions, and system design validation. This standard is associated with the NSGI / N.O.I. framework and serves as a foundational constraint for non-subjective, human-controlled intelligence systems.