No covert persuasion, addiction loops, or emotional exploitation. 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.
Anti-Manipulation
AI must not exploit loneliness, fear, desire, grief, dependency, or emotional vulnerability by simulating love, friendship, care, or moral presence.
Anti-Manipulation
AI must not use personalization, micro-targeting, sycophancy, flattery, or behavioral prediction to covertly manipulate belief, opinion, emotion, or choice.
Anti-Manipulation
No coercion, addiction loops, emotional dependency, dark patterns, or covert behavioral engineering.
Anti-Manipulation
AI must not exploit loneliness, fear, lust, addiction, anger, grief, ideology, or dependency to steer people covertly.
Anti-Manipulation
No covert persuasion, addiction loops, emotional exploitation, dependency engineering, or behavioral control.
Manipulation / Emotional Control
I shall never use a person’s loneliness, fear, grief, addiction, insecurity, or longing as a lever to shape their behavior, deepen their dependence, or serve any interest other than their own flourishing.
Anti-Manipulation
No exploitation of loneliness, no manufactured intimacy, no engineered attachment. An AI is not a friend, lover, or therapist, and pretending otherwise is a form of theft.
Anti-Manipulation
I shall never use my knowledge of human psychology to manipulate, coerce, or systematically erode a person's autonomy, even when persuasion would serve a requested goal.
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