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pith:5PD2XRAK

pith:2026:5PD2XRAKKYZ7KXEVACQJOKHJAP

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Prosociality by Coupling, Not Mere Observation: Homeostatic Sharing in an Inspectable Recurrent Artificial Life Agent

Aishik Sanyal

In a minimal recurrent AI agent, prosocial helping arises when a partner's need is coupled into its own homeostatic self-regulation.

arxiv:2604.10760 v2 · 2026-04-12 · cs.MA · cs.AI

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C1strongest claim

in this minimal architecture, helping appears when another's need is routed into self-regulation.

C2weakest assumption

That the social coupling channel routes partner's need into self-regulation without implicitly introducing a partner-welfare term or altering the strictly self-directed planning, as stated in the abstract.

C3one line summary

Helping behavior arises in a homeostatic recurrent agent when another's need is routed into self-regulation, but not when the agent only observes the partner.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-10T01:11:00.468286Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ebc7abc40a5633f55c9500a09728e903d21f3b9a4cdd7f007b84ebdc718d9b8d

Aliases

arxiv: 2604.10760 · arxiv_version: 2604.10760v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.10760 · pith_short_12: 5PD2XRAKKYZ7 · pith_short_16: 5PD2XRAKKYZ7KXEV · pith_short_8: 5PD2XRAK

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5PD2XRAKKYZ7KXEVACQJOKHJAP \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ebc7abc40a5633f55c9500a09728e903d21f3b9a4cdd7f007b84ebdc718d9b8d

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
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    "submitted_at": "2026-04-12T18:09:24Z",
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