TECHNOLOGY WITH
ACCOUNTABILITY.
Our proposed shared commitment: technology should serve life, liberty, safety, dignity, and responsible innovation.
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One promise.
These articles guide the proposed public-interest mission. They are not enforceable law or evidence of a legally formed institution.
01Human dignity and freedom
Explanation: Every person deserves dignity, freedom of thought, expression and lawful association, and equal treatment.
Practical application: Offer education without nationality, wealth, political, token or technical tests.
Accountability principle: Review exclusion complaints fairly and publish aggregate access barriers.
02Privacy and autonomy
Explanation: People should retain meaningful control over personal information and lawful private life.
Practical application: Minimize collection, use secure defaults and clear retention limits; avoid forced consent.
Accountability principle: Document data purposes and independent checks of deletion and access.
03Protection from technological abuse
Explanation: Oppose stalking, intimidation, exploitation, manipulation, discrimination and technology-enabled harm.
Practical application: Teach safe reporting and prohibit doxxing, threats, unauthorized intrusion and retaliatory targeting.
Accountability principle: Investigate organizational misconduct only through lawful, qualified processes with fair response.
04Children and future generations
Explanation: Young people and those who follow us deserve stronger safeguards and long-term care.
Practical application: Avoid collecting children’s records; seek specialist safeguarding review before youth work.
Accountability principle: Require documented risk review, appropriate consent and periodic safeguarding assessment.
05Responsible innovation
Explanation: Technology can advance safety, creativity, accessibility, science and human progress.
Practical application: Compare benefits, limitations and less-intrusive alternatives before deployment.
Accountability principle: Evaluate real outcomes and unintended harms rather than popularity or marketing.
06AI safety and accountability
Explanation: Consequential AI requires accountable human stewardship and protection from malicious abuse.
Practical application: Test accuracy, bias, security and misuse; provide human review and protect responsible AI systems.
Accountability principle: Record limitations, incidents, corrective actions and independent review of high-risk uses.
07Independent oversight and audits
Explanation: Oversight must be independent, competent and able to examine relevant evidence securely.
Practical application: Propose auditors with conflict controls, confidentiality duties and access proportionate to risk.
Accountability principle: Publish appropriate aggregate findings and follow remediation without exposing private records.
08Transparency and evidence
Explanation: Claims must distinguish confirmed facts, allegations, opinions and unresolved questions.
Practical application: Record sources and dates, offer fair response and publish clear corrections.
Accountability principle: Require independent editorial review and a visible revision history for significant claims.
09Due process and proportional enforcement
Explanation: Fair notice, lawful authority and impartial adjudication should precede penalties.
Practical application: Propose graduated responses based on intent, severity, recurrence, harm and ability to remedy.
Accountability principle: Preserve appeal, evidentiary standards and review by competent independent authorities.
10Accessible complaints and remedies
Explanation: People need understandable, safe routes to challenge errors and seek appropriate remedies.
Practical application: Explain existing official complaint routes; develop accessible intake only after security review.
Accountability principle: Track resolution and appeals in aggregate while protecting confidentiality; no Pact intake exists now.
11Protection of responsible organizations and innovators
Explanation: Responsible companies, researchers, developers and AI operators deserve protection from sabotage, fraud and unfair accusation.
Practical application: Respect lawful security research, intellectual property and confidential information; allow factual responses.
Accountability principle: Use proportionate risk standards and correction procedures for wrongly accused organizations.
12Global inclusion and nonpartisan cooperation
Explanation: A worldwide family can cooperate across borders and political differences.
Practical application: Support translation, accessible formats and locally informed participation without political tests.
Accountability principle: Review representation and accessibility and disclose limits of jurisdiction-specific resources.
13Ethical governance and conflicts of interest
Explanation: Mission governance must serve public interests with transparent responsibilities and recusal.
Practical application: Publish proposed roles, selection rules and interests; separate mission activity from token commerce.
Accountability principle: No purchase buys influence; independently review conflicts, decisions and any future finances.
14Long-term stewardship and public accountability
Explanation: Protect future generations through resilient institutions, regular review and open learning.
Practical application: Reassess emerging risks, preserve decision records and amend principles transparently.
Accountability principle: Propose periodic public impact reports and independent review; do not claim completed audits.