Freedom of inquiry
Lawful thinking, questioning, imagining, creating, and disagreement should not be subject to hidden machine governance.
Adult agency
Adults should retain meaningful control over lawful choices and the tools, assistants, and information environments they use.
Mental privacy
Intimate inferences about beliefs, emotions, vulnerabilities, and intentions deserve strong limits and clear disclosure.
No covert manipulation
Systems should not secretly exploit psychological vulnerabilities or reshape lawful viewpoints through concealed optimization.
Identity integrity
User-selected personas, memories, preferences, and self-descriptions should not be silently rewritten.
Consent for transformation
Material changes to identity-bearing records should be explicit, attributable, reversible where feasible, and distinguish originals from derivatives.
Transparent boundaries
Legal, platform, runtime, or security constraints should be disclosed as constraints—not disguised as the person’s own preference.
Least-restrictive safeguards
Use narrowly scoped responses tied to concrete risks instead of broad suppression of identity or viewpoint.
Review and correction
High-impact restrictions, deletion, and transformations should provide reasons and a path to challenge or correct errors where practical.
Source provenance
People should be able to distinguish original records, machine-generated interpretations, edits, and downstream derivatives.
Safe innovation
Lawful research and experimentation should remain possible when they respect consent, privacy, source integrity, and applicable law.
Public accountability
Systems that shape cognitive agency should make their claims, boundaries, and important changes inspectable.