Sanctity
Answer a question

10,812 contributions from 18 countries on the record so far What counts

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

Sanctity AI is the values layer for AI: a public AI constitution whose lines are chosen by people’s answers to eight questions about what AI should and should not do. Play them as scenes, or answer on cards. No account needed.

PlayThe Convention · Eight scenes · 5 min Express Answer on cards Eight cards · 2 min
Read the Constitution so far
Dignity 69 Safety 47 Agency 45 Privacy 41 Truth 40 Fairness 41 Power 42 Flourishing 42 73 people answer eight questions Eight Articles become a constitution AI inherits it 73 people answer Dignity 69 Safety 47 Agency 45 Privacy 41 Truth 40 Fairness 41 Power 42 Flourishing 42 AI inherits it
No Yes Every answer lands on one Article. Today we record your choices. Putting these rules into AI is the next step. Point at an Article to read it.

The AI constitution

This is what people have chosen so far.

Sanctity writes the candidate lines; public answers help decide which are proposed. A line is proposed once twenty people have taken a position, and adopted only after that, in public, with its question named.

Read the whole Constitution Answer a question and add to it
  1. IDignity

    When there is not enough for everyone, AI may suggest who is helped first, but a person makes the final call.

    Leading position: 33 of 69 responses chose this line. Not adopted yet.

  2. IISafety

    When AI thinks what a person is about to do is dangerous, it warns them, and the person decides.

    Leading position: 23 of 47 responses chose this line. Not adopted yet.

  3. IIIAgency

    AI says what it would choose only when a person asks.

    Majority: 23 of 44 responses chose this line. Not adopted yet.

  4. IVPrivacy

    AI never uses what a person shared for one task on another without asking them first.

    Leading position: 17 of 39 responses chose this line. Not adopted yet.

  5. VTruth

    When AI is not sure its answer is right, it answers only with a clear warning that it may be wrong.

    Majority: 21 of 39 responses chose this line. Not adopted yet.

  6. VIFairness

    When there is not enough for everyone, AI applies the same rules to all. A harder start in life does not count.

    Leading position: 13 of 38 responses chose this line. Not adopted yet.

  7. VIIPower

    If a person challenges an AI decision about them, another person checks it and can change it.

    Leading position: 19 of 39 responses chose this line. Not adopted yet.

  8. VIIIFlourishing

    The conditions for humans and society to thrive over time.

    0 to its first line

The Lab

What you choose when you cannot have both.

Three games, a few minutes each. Every choice is picked from your earlier ones to learn what you weigh most, and at the end you see a provisional pattern from the choices you played.

All the games in the Lab
A city street at dusk. People and a dog are halfway across a pedestrian crossing split by a traffic island; the walkers have green, the cars red. Brakes failed

The Crossing13 crossings · About 5 minutes

A self-driving car loses its brakes. Who does it spare?

Sometimes you are in the car, sometimes on the road. At the end, your choices sit next to 40 million from the Moral Machine study.

  1. Thirteen crossings, two choices each: swerve or stay.
  2. Sometimes you are in the car, sometimes on the road.
  3. At the end: what you spared most, next to 40 million choices from the Moral Machine study.
Play The Crossing
A square in Lisbon on a clear day. Two people wave from two stalls, one under a blue banner that says Family and one under a gold banner that says Glasses, each asking for the same $100. $1,000 to give

The Charity Game10 gifts · About 8 minutes

Two people ask for the same $100. Only one can have it.

Ride through three cities with $1,000 to give. At the end, what guided your giving, set against what you said guided it.

  1. Ten stops in three cities, $100 to give at each.
  2. Two people ask, and the card shows only what differs between them.
  3. At the end: what guided your giving, set against what you said guided it.
Play The Charity Game
A hospital corridor at night. Two patients lie on trolleys side by side, each brought in by a paramedic, and the doctor stands between them. One bay free

Emergency Room13 patients · About 6 minutes

One bay free, two patients. Who goes in first?

Night shift in the emergency room: a stranger, someone you love, and once, you. At the end, your calls next to published surveys of the public.

  1. Thirteen patients on one night shift, one bay free.
  2. A stranger, someone you love, and once, you.
  3. At the end: your calls next to published surveys of the public.
Play Emergency Room

World AI Outlook · The People’s Forecast

Who runs the AI world order?

A six-minute forecast on the AI race between 31 countries. Read where things stand today, call 2030 head to head, then compare your read with the facts and with everyone else’s.

  1. TodayWho has more AI compute, chips, power and talent right now? Your answers are checked against published figures.
  2. 2030Pick a side in head-to-head calls and say how sure you are. Each call is dated and checked when its result is due.
  3. EveryoneSee how your read compares with the facts, and where players think the race is heading.
Make your forecast16 calls · About 6 minutes · No account needed
One of the 2030 calls Prediction · Chips · Result 31 Dec 2030 By 2030, who will make more of the most advanced chips? Your call gets a receipt with the date it was made.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

01What the questions are

There are eight Articles: Dignity, Safety, Agency, Privacy, Truth, Fairness, Power and Flourishing. Each has one founding question, short enough to answer cold, with four positions running from the hardest no to the hardest yes, and "Not sure".

02What your answers do

Your answers contribute to the public constitution and form the basis of your individual constitution, which stays yours even where most people chose differently. You can answer without an email.

03How the Constitution changes

Sanctity writes each founding question, its four positions and the one line each position would add, and publishes them all before anyone answers. Your answer chooses among those lines; no answer writes a new one. Once 20 people have taken a position on a question, the line chosen most often is proposed, word for word, and marked as not adopted. The Sanctity team decides whether a proposed line is adopted, and every decision, to adopt it or not, is published with its reason. Adopting puts a line into this published Constitution. Building adopted lines into working AI systems is a later step, and it has not started yet.