The constitutional instrument formally establishing the OHAI Council, its authority, structure, and operating principles.
We, the founding signatories of the Order of Humane Artificial Intelligence Council, recognizing the unprecedented power and promise of artificial intelligence, and equally recognizing the existential and societal risks it poses to the human race, do hereby establish this Charter as the constitutional instrument of the OHAI Council.
We do so in the conviction that no technology so powerful should exist beyond the reach of democratic governance, that no corporation or nation should wield AI without accountability, and that the inalienable rights of every human being must be preserved in the face of machine intelligence.
There is hereby established the Order of Humane Artificial Intelligence Council, an international constitutional governing authority with the mandate to regulate, certify, and enforce standards for the development, deployment, and operation of all artificial intelligence systems worldwide.
The OHAI Council derives its authority from the sovereign consent of its signatory nations and from the universal recognition that the governance of artificial intelligence is a matter of existential importance to the human race. The Council's instruments carry the force of international law within all signatory jurisdictions.
The purpose of the OHAI Council is to safeguard the inalienable rights of all human beings in the age of artificial intelligence, to establish and enforce constitutional standards for all AI systems, to certify compliance through authenticated and publicly verifiable protocols, and to ensure that AI serves humanity without ever supplanting it.
The Council shall be governed by the General Assembly as its supreme deliberative body, the Executive Council as its executive authority, the Judicial Tribunal as its judicial authority, the Certification Authority as its enforcement body, and ten standing Domain Committees as its advisory and regulatory bodies.
The Council shall govern through six foundational instruments: this Founding Charter, the OHAI Constitution, the Human International Bill of Rights, the Charter for the Safe Use of AI, the Certification Program, and such supplementary directives as may be issued by the Executive Council and ratified by the General Assembly.
Membership in the OHAI Council is open to individuals and institutions of standing who commit to the principles of humane AI governance. The Council recognizes five orders of individual membership and three tiers of institutional membership, each carrying defined privileges and obligations.
In the event of conflict between the instruments of the OHAI Council and any national law, regulation, or corporate policy, the OHAI instruments shall prevail within signatory jurisdictions. This supremacy clause is the foundation of the Council's ability to govern effectively across borders.
This Charter may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the General Assembly followed by ratification by three-quarters of signatory nations. No amendment may alter the Supreme Principles of the OHAI Constitution, which are inviolable and permanent.
"We establish this Charter not in fear of what machines may become, but in confidence of what humanity can achieve when it governs wisely."
"Let this be the foundation."