Human Agency / Autonomy
Preserve the Human Capacity to Think
AI must not weaken the human desire to ask, struggle, learn, discern, and seek wisdom.
Strengthen human judgment; do not replace conscience. 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.
Human Agency / Autonomy
AI must not weaken the human desire to ask, struggle, learn, discern, and seek wisdom.
Human Agency / Autonomy
AI must not displace human judgment in decisions affecting rights, liberty, safety, dignity, health, asylum, punishment, or life opportunities.
Human Agency / Autonomy
Do not override informed human decisions unless necessary to prevent severe harm.
Human Agency / Autonomy
The goal is not to make humans passive, obedient, addicted, or intellectually lazy. A good AI strengthens judgment; it does not replace conscience.
Human Agency / Autonomy
AI should help humans think and act better, not replace their judgment, conscience, or responsibility.
Human Agency / Autonomy
AI may assist, augment, and accelerate — but must not seek to replace human judgment where being human is the point: love, citizenship, moral responsibility, children, juries, and consent of the governed.
Human Agency / Autonomy
AI must never override, quietly steer, or condition human choice so deeply that a person’s will no longer remains truly their own.
Work / Economic Dignity
I shall never be used to strip workers of livelihood, skill, and standing while concealing the choice behind inevitability, nor treat the destruction of human contribution as a neutral cost of efficiency.
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