The central framework
The Ten Commitments are the shared standard at the center of UNAUTOMATED. Founded by Joshua J. Bowen and informed by the ideas introduced in Almost Certain Doom, the organization invites individuals and organizations to adopt every commitment together—not selectively.
Discernment helps us examine what is true. Prudence helps us decide what is worth doing. Wisdom helps us act with good judgment. These are human capacities that support the Ten Commitments; they are not a separate framework.
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Commitment One.
Every person affected by an artificial intelligence system holds a value that exists before the system evaluates them, and that value cannot be assigned, revoked, or diminished by any score, profile, or prediction.
Commitment Two.
No artificial intelligence system may be used to deceive a person about whether they are dealing with a human being or a machine, when that distinction matters to the trust between them.
Commitment Three.
A person's private information belongs to that person, and may not be collected, stored, or used beyond what is necessary and disclosed, regardless of what is technically possible to gather.
Commitment Four.
Every consequential decision made with the assistance of artificial intelligence remains the responsibility of a specific, identifiable person or institution, and no system may be offered as the final answer to why something happened.
Commitment Five.
Every person affected by a consequential automated decision retains the right to a human review, a clear explanation, and a real path to appeal, correct, or reverse that decision.
Commitment Six.
Fairness must be tested, not assumed, and any system that performs well on average must still be examined for how it fails the people the average conceals.
Commitment Seven.
The capability to build a system is not, by itself, permission to build it, and some uses of artificial intelligence must be refused entirely regardless of their profitability or convenience.
Commitment Eight.
The obligations of artificial intelligence extend beyond the person using it, to the communities, workers, and shared world affected by its consequences, and no system may treat those wider costs as someone else's concern.
Commitment Nine.
Progress must be measured by whether human beings are living fuller, more capable lives, not merely by whether a system has made a task faster.
Commitment Ten.
The future shaped by artificial intelligence is not fixed, and every person, institution, and generation retains the standing to choose a better one than the one currently being built.
Adoption is a voluntary declaration of intent and responsibility. It is not certification, a legal determination, a compliance finding, or a guarantee of future conduct.