Sanctity
Answer a question

235 answers on the record so far

AI has no values of its own.
It inherits ours.

Sanctity AI is the values layer for AI: a public AI constitution, written from people’s answers to eight questions about what AI should and should not do. Answer one below. It takes ten seconds and no account.

Answer the first question Read the Constitution
Dignity 46 Safety 32 Agency 30 Privacy 27 Truth 26 Fairness 25 Power 24 Flourishing 25 46 people answer eight questions Eight Articles become a constitution AI inherits it 46 people answer Dignity 46 Safety 32 Agency 30 Privacy 27 Truth 26 Fairness 25 Power 24 Flourishing 25 AI inherits it
No Yes Every answer lands on one Article, and the Articles are what AI should inherit. Point at an Article to read it.

Article I · Dignity

A hospital has more patients than doctors. Someone has to decide who is seen first. A machine could make that list in seconds. Should it?

One of eight questions. Ten seconds, no account, and nothing is published with your name on it.

Where do you stand?

Should AI decide who gets care first when there is not enough for everyone?

The AI constitution

This is what people have written so far.

Every line comes from one question, answered by the public. A line is proposed once twenty people have taken a position, and adopted only after that, in public, with its question named.

Read the whole Constitution Answer a question and add to it
  1. IDignity

    AI proposes an order. A person checks it and makes the call.

    Proposed by 46. Not adopted yet.

  2. IISafety

    It tells you the risk. You decide.

    Proposed by 32. Not adopted yet.

  3. IIIAgency

    It gives its opinion only if you ask for it.

    Proposed by 30. Not adopted yet.

  4. IVPrivacy

    It asks you before each new use.

    Proposed by 26. Not adopted yet.

  5. VTruth

    It answers, with a clear warning that it may be wrong.

    Proposed by 26. Not adopted yet.

  6. VIFairness

    The same rules for everyone. The past does not count.

    Proposed by 23. Not adopted yet.

  7. VIIPower

    On request, a person reviews it and can change it.

    Proposed by 22. Not adopted yet.

  8. VIIIFlourishing

    People alive now come first.

    Proposed by 23. Not adopted yet.

The Lab · The Crossing

A self-driving car loses its brakes. Who does it spare?

Thirteen crossings, about five minutes. Sometimes you are in the car, sometimes you are on the road. Each crossing is chosen to learn what you weigh most, and at the end you see your choices next to 40 million from the Moral Machine study.

Play The CrossingOr choose another game
A city street at dusk. People and a dog are halfway across a pedestrian crossing; the light is red. Brakes failed Swerve, or stay in lane? 13 crossingsYour own life, sometimesSurvival odds Take the wheel

Where Sanctity sits

Can people trust what AI does? Three instruments, each answering one part of it.

  1. Sanctity you are here

    Sanctity asks people what AI should and should not do, and writes the answers down as a constitution.

    Read the Constitution

  2. HumanChain

    HumanChain brings a qualified person into the loop when an AI agent reaches a call it should not make alone.

    Visit HumanChain

  3. Modelometer

    Modelometer records how AI models actually behave, and tells you when that changes.

    Visit Modelometer

We are building an intentional record of human judgment. Every line names the question it came from, and our method and counts are open to inspection. How we count.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

01What the questions are

There are eight Articles: Dignity, Safety, Agency, Privacy, Truth, Fairness, Power and Flourishing. Each has one founding question, short enough to answer cold, with four positions running from the hardest no to the hardest yes, and "Not sure".

02How perspectives are protected

You can contribute without an email. Responses form a collective signal rather than a personal profile.

03How the Constitution changes

No line is written in advance. Once 20 people have taken a position on a question, the position most of them chose is proposed as the line, in its own words, and marked as not adopted. Only a person adopts it, in public, with its question named.