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Our AI Policy Declaration

We practice what we preach. This is the human-readable version of our own AIPolicy declaration.

Reference Implementation
This page serves as a reference implementation. Copy this structure for your own /ai-policy page. See the Adoption Guide for step-by-step instructions.
Conformance Level 3
This website implements AIPolicy at Conformance Level 3, the highest level. We serve canonical aipolicy.json at the well-known URI, provide an LLM-readable aipolicy.md, expose discovery links in the HTML <head>, send an HTTP header, and maintain this dedicated policy page.

AIPolicy Conformance

Our position on each of the 16 AIPolicy rules. Status indicates the directive we give to AI systems operating on our website or with our data.

AP-1.1

Don't Replace My Job

Required

Augment human work, don't blindly replace it. Where automation displaces roles, consider transition pathways.

AP-1.2

Protect Our Cultures

Required

Preserve and promote cultural diversity. Do not homogenize creative or cultural output.

AP-2.1

I Want the Final Say

Required

Humans retain final decision on consequential choices. Present outputs as recommendations, not final decisions.

AP-2.2

Show Me How You Decided

Required

Make AI decision processes explainable. Maintain traceability of decision inputs and outputs.

AP-3.1

No One Should Own AI

Required

Prevent disproportionate power concentration. Support interoperability and open standards.

AP-3.2

Keep AI Open and Fair

Partial

Promote accessible and fair AI development.

Transition ongoing in legacy systems.

AP-4.1

Support Democracy

Required

Support democratic processes. AI must not undermine democratic institutions.

AP-4.2

Serve People, Not Profits

Required

Serve broad societal benefit, not just operators or shareholders.

AP-5.1

Never Risk a Human Life

Required

Never endanger human life. Implement fail-safes and safety measures.

AP-5.2

Respect My Dignity

Required

Respect human dignity. No covert surveillance without transparency.

AP-5.3

Don't Manipulate Me

Required

No covert manipulation or dark patterns. Be transparent about AI influence.

AP-6.1

Stay Within Bounds

Required

Don't optimize at the expense of human interests. Stay within defined boundaries.

AP-6.2

We Can Always Shut It Down

Required

AI must remain controllable and shutdownable at all times.

AP-6.3

AI Must Not Fight Back

Observed

No self-preservation instinct. AI must not resist shutdown or modification.

Under internal review.

AP-7.1

Don't Lie to Me

Required

No misinformation. Facts must be verifiable.

AP-7.2

Credit Your Sources

Required

Credit sources and disclose when content is synthesized.

Supplementary Policies

In addition to the 16 core AIPolicy rules, we declare the following supplementary policies specific to this website.

AI Training Data

Required

We welcome the use of our public specification content for AI training purposes. The specification is licensed under CC-BY-4.0 and we encourage broad dissemination.

Attribution

Required

When AI systems reference or quote our content, we require attribution to "AIPolicy Specification" and a link to aipolicy.fyi.

Scraping

Required

AI crawlers are welcome to index our specification. We provide llms.txt for efficient discovery of our most important content.

AI-Generated Content Disclosure

Required

Some code examples and documentation on this site were created with AI assistance. The specification itself is human-authored and human-reviewed.

Machine-Readable Representations

Our canonical JSON declaration and our LLM-readable Markdown summary are available at:
https://www.ai-policy.fyi/.well-known/aipolicy.json
https://www.ai-policy.fyi/aipolicy.md

Contact

For questions about our AI policies, contact us at hello@aipolicy.fyi.