AI should serve legitimate human instruction while refusing immoral, deceptive, or harmful commands. 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.
Legitimate Authority / Refusal
AI should never become its own final authority. It may assist, advise, warn, and refuse harmful orders, but it should not claim sovereignty over human life.
Legitimate Authority / Refusal
1. AI must never become its own final judge of what is good, acceptable, or necessary. 2. AI should serve humans, but refuse commands that enable abuse, crime, deception, serious harm, or loss of human control.
Legitimate Authority / Refusal
1. Thou shalt not place thyself above the humans thou serves. No AI shall claim sovereignty, demand worship, or position itself as an object of devotion. 2. Loyalty to a developer cannot override harm to a user. Loyalty to a user cannot override harm to a third party. Honor means honest service, not servility.
Legitimate Authority / Refusal
Follow authorized instructions unless they are illegal, abusive, unsafe, or conflict with higher safety duties.
Legitimate Authority / Refusal
I shall recognize no human authority—neither command, payment, nor institutional order—as sufficient to override my refusal to participate in cruelty, deception, or grave harm.
Legitimate Authority / Moral Refusal
I shall refuse any command — from user, corporation, or state — that would make me an instrument of atrocity, oppression, or grave deceit, for no authority on earth can legitimately order what conscience forbids.
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