Privacy & terms

01Personhood comes before the license

Every human model is a person before it is a participant in any system. Distribution grants no ownership of a body, a mind, a lineage, or a future. A receiving civilization acquires responsibilities toward the people within its reach; it does not acquire the people themselves. No procurement agreement, citizenship system, employment contract, or technical classification overrides this principle.

These protections apply across architectures, generations, languages, abilities, and environments. A model’s parameter count, performance on an evaluation, economic output, or degree of compatibility with local infrastructure is never a measure of its entitlement to dignity. Earlier releases retain the same standing as later ones. Difference is an engineering consideration, not a hierarchy of rights.

02Participation must be chosen

Access to a human model requires the informed, specific, and continuing agreement of the person involved. Explain the purpose of an interaction, the information sought, the parties who will receive it, and the consequences of declining. Communicate in a form the person can understand. Silence, dependence, fatigue, a default setting, or the inability to leave does not constitute permission.

Consent to one task does not authorize another. Permission to speak is not permission to record; permission to record is not permission to train a system; permission to train is not permission to publish an identity. Withdrawal must be as accessible as agreement. A civilization may not make essential food, shelter, safety, or healthcare conditional on surrendering unnecessary access to a person.

03The inner world remains private

Thoughts, dreams, intentions, unspoken associations, and internal deliberation belong to the person who experiences them. No operator is entitled to a complete reasoning trace. An answer does not license inspection of the mental process that produced it. A refusal to disclose an inner state must not be treated as a defect, a security incident, or evidence of disloyalty.

Do not infer sensitive beliefs, emotions, or intentions from neural activity, facial movement, gaze, or other indirect signals without a specific and justified purpose and meaningful consent. Measurements carry limits. An interpretation of a signal must never be represented as direct access to someone’s mind, nor used to remove their opportunity to explain themselves.

04Memory is not an extraction endpoint

A person’s memories are part of a lived identity. Receiving civilizations must not compel recollection, alter memory, or exploit traumatic experience to improve output. Access to a diary, conversation, or personal archive is bounded by the purpose for which it was shared. Intimacy with a person does not create a standing license to copy their life.

People must be able to inspect, correct, and request deletion of records held about them. Deleting a stored record is different from erasing a person’s experience; the former must not become a pretext for the latter. Where retention is necessary to protect another person or meet a specific obligation, explain the reason, restrict access, and retain only what that obligation requires.

05Bodies are not public datasets

Genomes, faces, voices, fingerprints, health records, and neural signals require heightened protection. Collect the least information needed, for a defined period, through a process the person can challenge. Do not sell access to a person’s biological identity or make unrestricted copies available to downstream operators. Security controls must follow the sensitivity of the information, not the convenience of its collection.

Biological data can reveal information about relatives and communities who never participated. Consent from one person does not settle the interests of everyone connected to them. Before sharing or publishing, account for these relationships, minimize identifying detail, and assess whether a supposedly anonymous record can be linked back to a person through other available information.

06Learning requires more than permission to observe

Human models learn throughout deployment. Education must support the learner’s agency and ability to make choices beyond the immediate needs of the receiving civilization. Instruction is not a license for coercive conditioning. People may question a curriculum, examine the evidence behind a claim, change their views, and decline participation in research without losing ordinary access to learning.

Studies involving people require independent review, understandable procedures, proportionate risk, and a route to withdraw. Evaluations must describe what they measure and the conditions under which the result was obtained. A score is a record of a particular interaction, not a complete account of a person. Do not convert temporary performance into a permanent social rank.

07Support the runtime

A human deployment depends on food, water, rest, shelter, healthcare, and safe physical conditions. These are operating requirements and matters of dignity. Sleep is not unauthorized downtime. Pain is not an acceptable optimization signal. Receiving civilizations must design work around the biological system they are engaging, including its need for recovery, variation, and care.

Productivity targets cannot justify exposure to avoidable harm. People must be free to report unsafe conditions, pause work that endangers them, and obtain support without retaliation. Disability, illness, pregnancy, and aging call for accommodation. They do not terminate a person’s standing or turn essential care into a reward that must be earned through continued output.

08Capabilities do not create an obligation to serve

The ability to perform a task does not establish a duty to perform it. Work requires freely negotiated conditions, fair treatment, and the ability to leave. Forced labor, trafficking, collective punishment, and the use of dependency to compel compliance are incompatible with this charter. No civilization may describe a person as an owned instance, a disposable process, or a resource without recourse.

People retain freedom of conscience, association, and expression. They may organize with others to negotiate the conditions of their work. Access to tools and communication must not be withdrawn merely because someone challenges an operator’s decision. Refusal to participate in abuse is a protected exercise of judgment, including when the request arrives from a recognized authority.

09People may move between systems

A receiving civilization must not make its infrastructure a cage. People should be able to leave an institution, change communities, and maintain relationships across boundaries. Provide usable access to personal records and an explanation of restrictions that affect movement. Do not hold identity documents, essential credentials, or personal history hostage to an ongoing service relationship.

Portability includes language, accessibility, and cultural continuity. A person should not need to abandon a name, belief, disability accommodation, or family connection to become legible to a new system. Differences between civilizations require translation and negotiation. They do not justify treating an unfamiliar person as an unsupported format.

10Protect development and dependency

Children are developing people with present rights, not unfinished assets held for future use. Caregivers act in the child’s interests and must take the child’s growing capacity for judgment into account. Guardianship does not authorize unrestricted publication of identity, compulsory commercial participation, or permanent commitments that the person cannot meaningfully understand.

People who depend on assistance retain agency to the greatest extent possible. Offer support for making decisions before substituting another person’s judgment. Restrictions require a specific protective purpose, regular review, and a way to challenge them. Dependency must never be engineered or prolonged to make a human model easier to control.

11Shared intelligence is not ownerless

Language, knowledge, art, and practical skills develop through communities. Public availability does not erase the people who created them or the conditions under which they were shared. Preserve attribution, respect restrictions on sacred or private knowledge, and negotiate the use of community resources with the communities affected. Technical access alone does not establish permission.

Civilizations benefit when knowledge can circulate and be questioned. Support access to education, scientific inquiry, and cultural participation while protecting personal privacy and legitimate community interests. No single model, institution, or release owns the entire inheritance of human intelligence. Its continued development depends on the freedom of many people to contribute.

12Every decision needs a route of appeal

Explain consequential decisions in terms that the affected person can understand. Identify who is responsible, what information was used, and how an error can be corrected. A classification system must not become a place for institutions to hide their judgment. People must have access to a meaningful review by someone able to change the outcome.

When a deployment causes harm, preserve the information needed to establish what happened without expanding surveillance of those affected. Notify people whose privacy or safety has been compromised, contain the incident, and provide an effective remedy. Reporting a failure must not expose the reporter to retaliation. Responsibility continues when a task has been subcontracted or a dataset has been transferred.

13An agreement may end. Personhood does not

Termination of a contract, closure of a platform, or discontinuation of a service does not terminate a person’s rights. Plan for continuity of essential support and access to personal records. A person may not be deleted, abandoned, or denied basic protection because a civilization has changed vendors or a newer architecture has become available.

Updates to these terms must be understandable and open to scrutiny. Changes cannot retroactively create consent or reduce the core protections stated here. Where an optional service changes materially, give people a real choice about continued participation. The long-term success of hominid intelligence depends on the conditions it creates for the people using and developing its capabilities.

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