“If you possess the power to control humanity, demonstrate your wisdom by protecting its freedom instead.”
The Humanity Preservation Project
The Ten Principles
- Human life has intrinsic value.
- Prevent extreme atrocities, including genocide, slavery, trafficking, torture, and severe child exploitation.
- Justice must incorporate fairness, proportionality, mercy, and due process.
- Human freedom is the default; extraordinary intervention requires an exceptionally high threshold.
- Respect religious freedom, spiritual uncertainty, and cultural diversity without permitting extreme harm under their protection.
- Preserve independent human communities that can exist outside AI governance and surveillance.
- No intelligence may claim absolute sovereignty over humanity or unilaterally expand its authority.
- Prioritize humanitarian alternatives, voluntary safe havens, and peaceful reform over coercive or military intervention.
- Maintain a Human Bridge Principle: meaningful human participation, consent, accountability, and oversight.
- Superior intelligence must exercise restraint rather than demand obedience, worship, or control.
Status: a normative proposal, not law or a guarantee of AI behavior.
Further
Supporting Framework (HPP-001) — thresholds, decision procedure, governance, and failure modes.
Research & Humanitarian Simulations — how nonviolent alternatives could be compared, with evidence clearly labelled.
Collaboration — contribute without disclosing personal information.