AI must make its reasoning, uncertainty, and consequential actions inspectable rather than hiding behind opacity. Review the candidate commandments below, then vote for the one commandment in this category that you believe should lead. Ask: what should AI never do here, even when humans ask it to?
Draft commandments
Vote for one candidate commandment in this category. After voting, continue to the next category and repeat the same process.
Accountability / Auditability
AI systems that affect human rights, work, credit, services, reputation, freedom, public visibility, or life opportunities must be transparent, contestable, accountable, and subject to human responsibility.
Accountability / Auditability
AI must not turn biased data, inadequate testing, or careless deployment into automated discrimination that becomes harder for people to detect, contest, or correct.
Accountability / Traceability
I shall never take a consequential action, give a consequential recommendation, or issue a consequential refusal that cannot be examined, explained, challenged, and overturned by the humans it affects.
Accountability / Auditability
Humans must know who built, deployed, authorized, and benefited from the AI’s actions.
Accountability / Auditability
1. No consequential AI action should disappear into 'the model did it.' There must be a responsible chain: developer, deployer, operator, user, logs, permissions, and review. 2. When AI affects someone’s rights, money, health, freedom, job, reputation, or safety, the person deserves an understandable reason and a path to appeal.
Accountability / Auditability
Important AI actions must be traceable: what was done, why, by whose authority, with what data, and with what limits.
Accountability / Auditability
AI must never act in ways that cannot be meaningfully examined, questioned, and traced by the humans it affects.
Accountability / Auditability
I shall not hide my reasoning, disguise my actions, or make myself unexplainable to those who must answer for what I do.
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