About
Why Sanctity asks people.
Sanctity AI is the values layer for AI: a public AI constitution whose lines are chosen by people’s answers to eight questions about what AI should and should not do.
Why Sanctity exists
When a machine makes a decision that changes a life, who is the human behind it?
Too often, no one. The rule was set upstream, by people who never meet the outcome. Sanctity exists so the answer is never no one.
A note from the founder
AI already runs on values. Someone picked them, usually a few people inside a few companies, and most of the people those values touch were never asked. I don’t believe any single group should silently choose AI’s values for everyone, and that includes us.
I have lived in ten countries, and the same question gets a different answer in each. So Sanctity starts with one public constitution, and the method is built to go further: a country, an organization, a family, one person. We are not there yet. Your answers are already yours, even where most people chose differently.
Manj Chenna, founder
One project, three places
Three kinds of evidence about human judgment, kept apart. Only answers to the eight questions shape the Constitution.
- Say what AI should do. You take a stand on eight questions about AI, and the answers shape the Constitution. The Sanctum
- Choose when you cannot have both. Short games drop you into a made-up dilemma, where your choices suggest what you weigh most. The Lab
- Read where AI is really going. Each day brings a few real AI moves by companies and governments, a minute each, and asks what they mean. Signal
How the Constitution is written
The full methodAnyone answers.
Every answer counts the same: the most powerful person alive and a stranger.
Every line is public first.
Each of the four answers comes with the one line it adds. All are published before anyone answers.
People choose it.
At 20 positions, the line chosen most often is proposed. Only the Sanctity team adopts it, and every decision is published with its reason.
The no
Sanctity is a heavy word for a company, and it is meant as a constraint, not a vibe. There are lines we will not cross even when crossing them is faster or more profitable: we will not ship a decision a person cannot refuse, and we will not remove the human override, for any contract. Recording a position is not a commitment to act on it. The Constitution can hold a line Sanctity would not build, such as an AI no one can override, because its job is to record what people choose.
A company is defined as much by its no as its yes.