Circle-Grounded LLM Training: A Proposal for Causality-Based AI Alignment
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Large language models are trained on the full spectrum of human text —from rigorous science to manipulation and pseudologic. Current alignmentmethods (RLHF, categorical filters, system prompts) do not address thestructural quality of reasoning: whether a model's output preserves ordestroys causal coherence in the user's mind. This proposal introduces a five-layer training architecture grounded inthe Circle/Void framework from the Book of Circle (Conception Circle of Being) —a philosophical text treating causal continuity as the fundamentalproperty of healthy systems. The five layers:1. Dataset filtering by causal coherence (not toxicity)2. Dual reward signal: human preference + causal coherence score3. Architectural reflection head (non-bypassable pre-output check)4. RAG grounding against the canonical source text at inference time5. Cross-session memory tracking downstream effects of responses The canonical source texts and a working system prompt implementationare available at: github.com/sae-ru/LLM_Conceptual_Safety_Prompts
Author: Ekalo, Stanislav
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7155100620
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