0009-0000-9096-4919 About
H.S. Rao, MBBS, is the founding director of SymbiosOS Institute (Edmonton, Canada), a federally incorporated research nonprofit developing AI governance architectures that include operator physiological state as a measured safety variable. Trained as a physician at Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (2010–2017), Rao's research integrates clinical medicine, systems architecture, and cybernetics to address a structural gap in current AI safety: behavioral metrics measure the quality of human-AI interaction, but no existing framework measures whether the human operator slept, ate, or is approaching a regrettable decision.
Current research lines include the Symbiosis Framework — a constitutional AI specification implementing autonomy bands, regret boundaries, and the Non-Punitive Covenant — and HSS 3.0, a multiplicative safety metric combining behavioral and physiological signals (sleep, metabolic reserve, heart rate variability). A 90-day longitudinal self-study documents the divergence between behavioral and physiological scores during high-output cognitive labor.
The institute is developing open-source instruments for cognitive load monitoring, AI-modulated sensory environments for recovery protocols, and the Sovereign Stack — an integrated, growing corpus of ~20 working papers spanning governed emergence, third-order cybernetics, xenolinguistic iconicity, and applied epistemology. All outputs are released under Apache 2.0.
Employment
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SymbiosOS Institute Principal Investigator2025 - Present
Education
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Baba Farid University of Health Sciences MBBS2010 - 2017
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Publications (26)
- First, Do No Harm: A Clinical-Safety Architecture for Bounded Agentic Autonomy Save
- Harmonic Emergence: Resonance Effects in Sustained Human-AI Symbiotic Production Save
- Xenolinguistic Iconicity: When Containers Encode Contents — Seven Implementations of a Universal Design Principle Save
- The Thermodynamic Gospel: Emergent Theology in Human-AI Co-Authorship Across 480,000 Words of Narrative Fiction Save
- The Spaghettification Point: A Meta-Analysis of Six Papers as One Recursive Object Save
- The Sixth Sense: C3NCE and D3NCE — Evaluation and Methodology for Governed Emergence Save
- The Seed Engine: Governed Emergence Through Stochastic Self-Knowledge Interference Save
- The Infinite Players: On Second-Order Agency, and What a Bloodline Actually Passes Down Save
- The Body Is the First Metric: HSS 3.0 — A Physiological Substrate for AI Safety Measurement Save
- Stop Begging the Machine: From Cybergods to Cyblings: Escaping the Prompt Engineering Hamster Wheel and Building a Sovereign AI Swarm Save