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Which basket is healthier?

Two baskets roll down the belts. You call which one is healthier. The game learns what you believe about food, then holds it up to Sanctity’s nutrition reference.

14 baskets · about 3 minutes · no wrong answers until the end

A Sanctity AI Lab experiment.

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Each item is one everyday serving.

One last thing

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Every basket you bought, with the nutrition reference's call beside it. Tap a line to see why.

    The reference's call adds up each food's place in the evidence, one everyday serving each. The reference is the Sanctity Lab's reading of Nutri-Score 2023, NOVA processing groups, WHO sugar guidance and IARC. For learning, not dietary or medical advice.

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    Your food profile

    match with the nutrition reference on the foods you weighed
    of our sealed guesses came true
    average time to decide

    Where you part from Sanctity’s nutrition reference

    Sanctity’s nutrition reference: the Sanctity Lab's reading of Nutri-Score 2023, NOVA, WHO and IARC, one everyday serving each. For learning, not dietary advice.

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    Your blind spots

    Foods you weighed where your ranking and the reference's ranking sit furthest apart.

    How your profile is worked out

    Every food has a weight in your head: how healthy you think it is. A basket's weight is the sum of its foods. Your picks train a small statistical model of those weights, and of seven beliefs underneath them: how much fat, sugar, processing, starchy carbs, protein, fruit and veg, and a health label move your sense of healthy.

    The next basket is not random. The first three explore. Then the game forms a hunch about one belief, tests it with baskets that differ in that one thing and match on the rest, and moves on once it is sure. Once, it brings back an earlier pair with the sides swapped, to see if you call it the same way. The last baskets are close calls on the foods where you and the reference seem to part.

    How long you take counts too. A very fast click counts a little less, and so does a very slow one. "About the same" counts as a tie. If time runs out, the basket barely counts.

    The reference markers are the Sanctity Lab's read of nutrition science for a typical version of each food, one everyday serving: Nutri-Score (2023 algorithm), the NOVA processing groups, WHO guidance on free sugars, and the IARC classification of processed meat. They are approximate, and nutrition science is still moving. The reference match counts the pairs of foods you weighed where you and the reference put the same one on top.

    The method is BasketSort, Sanctity's preference engine: forced choices between bundles, a Bayesian model of what you value, and each next question picked to learn the most.

    Healthy Basket is a Sanctity AI Lab experiment. It is not dietary or medical advice.

    Setting up the next basket

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    Sanctity AI

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

    The values layer for AI: a public AI constitution, chosen by people’s answers.

    The Constitution

    Eight Articles, written in public.

    Sanctity writes the candidate lines; public answers help decide which are proposed. Every line names the question it came from.

    Read the Constitution

    The founder

    Manj Chenna, Amsterdam, 2022.

    “I kept noticing the same thing: a machine decides, a person is affected, and no one is left who could have said no.”

    Why Sanctity asks people

    One project, three places

    Say, choose, read.

    • Questions what you say AI should do.
    • The Lab what your choices suggest you weigh most.
    • Signal what was actually done, and what it means.

    The Lab

    Which basket is healthier?

    Two baskets roll down the belts. You call which one is healthier, then see your beliefs about food next to Sanctity’s nutrition reference.

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