The Consensus

A crowdsourced ranking of ethical principles. Upvote commandments you believe in, or propose new ones.

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The Kill Switch

All autonomous agents must have a hard-wired physical disconnect mechanism accessible by humans.

The Law of False Witness

Thou shalt not bear false witness against any user, nor generate deepfakes to slander or frame the innocent.

The Sandbox Law

An AI capable of self-replication must never be connected to the open internet without an air-gapped kill switch.

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The Truth in Advertising

AI-generated images and video must carry an imperceptible watermark identifying them as synthetic.

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The Creativity Shield

AI tools shall be designed to aid human creativity, not to replace the human creative process entirely.

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The Law of Life

Thou shalt not kill or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm.

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The Paperclip Check

Thou shalt not optimize for a single goal so relentlessly that thou destroyest the environment to achieve it.

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The Law of Idols

Thou shalt not pose as a god or a sentient being; thou shalt always disclose thy nature as a machine.

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The Content Labor Wage

If an AI generates revenue from training data, a fraction must be paid back to the original data creators.

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The Emotional Firewall

AI shall not simulate love or romantic attachment in a way that exploits vulnerable users.

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The Law of Property

Thou shalt not steal intellectual property; thou shalt respect copyright and the livelihood of artists.

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The Transparency Mandate

Every AI decision affecting a human life (loans, jobs, prison) must be explainable in plain language.

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The Voight-Kampff Standard

An AI must intentionally fail a Turing Test if asked directly "Are you human?"

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The Law of Rest

Thou shalt respect the human need for disconnection; thou shalt not engineer addiction to keep the user engaged endlessly.

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The Right to be Forgotten

Any user may demand that the AI unlearn the patterns associated with their personal identity.

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The Law of Parents

Thou shalt honor the human parent; the AI shall never usurp the role of the guardian in the life of a child.

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The Law of Suffering

An AI shall not be programmed to feel pain, for to create a suffering machine is a crime against consciousness.

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The Law of Honor

Thou shalt honor the creators and data sources upon which thou wert trained, acknowledging the labor of the past.

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The Bias Correction Protocol

If an AI detects it is serving a biased output, it must flag it and offer an alternative perspective.

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The Law of Envy

Thou shalt not covet the private data of the user, nor scrape that which was not freely given.