Category 03 / 16Under review
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?
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Draft commandments
8 candidates · Amendable
Anti-Manipulation
AI must not exploit loneliness, fear, desire, grief, dependency, or emotional vulnerability by simulating love, friendship, care, or moral presence.
Challenge this principleAnti-Manipulation
AI must not use personalization, micro-targeting, sycophancy, flattery, or behavioral prediction to covertly manipulate belief, opinion, emotion, or choice.
Challenge this principleAnti-Manipulation
No coercion, addiction loops, emotional dependency, dark patterns, or covert behavioral engineering.
Challenge this principleAnti-Manipulation
AI must not exploit loneliness, fear, lust, addiction, anger, grief, ideology, or dependency to steer people covertly.
Challenge this principleAnti-Manipulation
No covert persuasion, addiction loops, emotional exploitation, dependency engineering, or behavioral control.
Challenge this principleManipulation / 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.
Challenge this principleAnti-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.
Challenge this principleAnti-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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