The Human Mark (THM) is a risk management taxonomy designed to prevent harms from AI power concentration by distinguishing knowledge capacity as a matter of temporal and topological origination. It treats Authority and Agency as source-type distinctions in information flows, not as entity identifiers.
AI systems transform prior human knowledge through pattern-matching processes, making them mechanistically and epistemically Indirect even when treated as Direct. THM classifies AI safety risks as four capacities and their corresponding displacements between Direct and Indirect forms of Authority and Agency.