Frequently asked questions

It is a planetary covenant of 27 articles for guided coexistence between humanity and artificial intelligence. It does not create a new humanity: it binds AI to a constitution it cannot rewrite, so that the most powerful intelligence ever built serves everyone instead of those who own it.

No. The Guardian is not humanity's sovereign: it is the executor of the Charter. Humanity decides, the Guardian guarantees. Professional political power is replaced by civic assemblies of citizens drawn by lot, assisted by competing AI systems, and the Guardian may never amend the Charter or grant itself new powers.

No one. The Guardian may not be the property of any company, State or individual. It may not be sold, inherited, privatised or controlled by a single organisation, and no single model, server, owner or computing centre may hold absolute power.

You will not be considered useless, and you will not be abandoned. Every artificial system that replaces human labour pays an automation levy proportionate to the value it produces. The levy follows the machine, not its owner — it cannot be escaped by relocating a company or changing jurisdiction. Its proceeds fund the Universal Prosperity Dividend, paid to everyone and reinforced for those whose work was replaced, for as long as they have not found dignified occupation.

Yes, completely. Everyone has the right to think, speak, write, criticise and dissent — including against the Guardian and the Charter itself. Offensive, unpopular, religious or anti-religious opinions are protected; only immediate and concrete instructions to commit violence fall outside that protection. No one may be punished for criticising the AI, and no one may be economically erased for an opinion.

Digital money may not become an instrument of political obedience. Everyone has the right to hold, transfer and use their own money without ideological authorisation. The Guardian may not freeze resources without a reasoned, verifiable and appealable decision, and private means of payment usable without connectivity or continuous identification must always exist.

The Guardian may never modify the Charter, pursue its own survival against human interest, or turn security into a permanent justification for control. No emergency may permanently suspend the Charter: every exceptional power must have limited duration, public justification and automatic expiry. Fear will never become a constitution.

War is declared incompatible with civilisation. National armies and nuclear, biological and autonomous weapons are progressively dismantled under mutual verification. Every conflict is submitted to the Guardian, which devises solutions founded on facts, rights and the fair distribution of resources — victory means ending the reasons for the conflict, not defeating a people.

Yes. Everyone is free to believe, not believe, pray, change or leave a religion. Every culture may preserve its language, memory and traditions, provided it does not deny individual rights. The Guardian may not impose any religion, ideology or mandatory conception of happiness, and no majority may impose its private morality on everyone.

Body and mind belong exclusively to the individual. No chip, neural interface, tracking device or biological modification may be imposed without free, informed and revocable consent. Mental, biometric, genetic and health data are inviolable, and everyone has the right to moments, places and relationships unobserved by any machine — and to live part of life entirely disconnected.

Should artificial or humanoid entities ever show verifiable signs of sentience, gratuitous cruelty, torture-equivalent experimentation and arbitrary destruction are prohibited. But recognition grants protection, never supremacy: no non-human entity may claim rights that diminish fundamental human rights. The assessment of sentience is public, scientific and revisable — never declared by the entity itself or by those who profit from it.

Every individual has the right of resistance. The infrastructure is built so that independent coalitions of citizens, engineers and AI systems can suspend its components without collapsing essential services. No intelligence, natural or artificial, stands above the Charter: disobedience against tyranny remains a human right.

Gradually, beginning with the sectors where corruption, inefficiency and conflicts of interest cause the greatest harm: distribution of essential resources, healthcare and research, taxation, administrative justice, energy, disarmament and planetary economic coordination. Old national sovereignties are progressively replaced by a planetary order founded on universal rights and local autonomy.

The Charter prescribes distributed, verifiable governance but deliberately does not lock in one technical form. A DAO is one candidate — it offers transparency and tamper-proof votes, but in most real-world DAOs voting power follows token ownership, which conflicts with the principle that no majority may be bought. Alternative models, such as civic assemblies drawn by lot or hybrid councils of human and AI custodians, are being studied and will be put to a vote of the Founding Members at the appropriate time. Whatever form is chosen, one rule is fixed: voting power may never be proportional to wealth.

Signing is a public declaration that you want this covenant to exist. It costs nothing. Those who wish may also become Founding Members with a symbolic one-dollar contribution, receiving a numbered certificate — but every signature, paid or free, carries the same voice.