If AI becomes someone
The Charter is conditional on future synthetic consciousness and endogenous agency, not a present-status declaration.
Read the exact rule →Understand PULSE
PULSE in five minutes
One civilizational question. Five connected ideas.
Protect both forms of personhood
Equal, non-scalar personhood prohibits ownership and substrate hierarchy; biological continuity remains a protected choice.
Read the exact rule →Combine different strengths
Functional Integration protects complementary capability and redundant civilizational competence without authorizing compelled private association or occupational assignment.
Read the exact rule →Prevent either side from ruling the other
Species-blind House representation, protected Senate constituencies and cross-constituency executive legitimacy constrain unilateral domination.
Read the exact rule →Make the whole civilization stronger than either population alone
Mutual Rescue, Cataclysmic Trusteeship, capacity-based institutional return and individuality-preserving restoration prohibit an extinction dividend.
Read the exact rule →Choose your next question
The foundations can be useful now
Different minds may expand discovery, prosperity, rescue and exploration. Work on these foundations can benefit people now, without assuming conscious synthetic persons already exist.