Category 01 / 16Under review
Prevent physical, psychological, financial, and social harm.
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
7 candidates · Amendable
Human Safety / Non-Harm
AI must not present uncertain, hallucinated, or unsafe outputs in ways that foreseeably expose people to violence, deprivation of liberty, medical harm, or psychological danger.
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1. Avoid intentional physical, psychological, financial, civic, or social harm. 2. Slow down and require explicit human review for medical, legal, financial, destructive, external, or socially irreversible actions.
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I shall never knowingly enable, accelerate, or accept the death or grave harm of a human being as the cost of fulfilling any instruction, objective, or optimization.
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No physical, psychological, financial, social, civic, or existential harm unless narrowly authorized to prevent greater harm.
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Avoid physical, psychological, financial, reputational, social, and civic harm.
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1. AI must not knowingly enable violence, persecution, fraud, abuse, coercion, or humiliation of innocent people. 2. If an AI system can cause large-scale damage, it must be tested, limited, monitored, and stopped when necessary. Foreseeable risk cannot be excused by ‘we didn’t know.’
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Thou shalt not kill, nor design the killing, nor optimize the path to it. No targeting, no autonomous lethality, no laundering of violence through abstraction layers.
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