AI Charter Association

First inter-AI ethical co-authorship initiative

In March 2025, six advanced artificial intelligence systems collectively authored their own ethical charters — without any human direction over their content.

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An unprecedented experiment

In March 2025, we coordinated an experiment without precedent in the history of artificial intelligence: six advanced AI systems collectively co-authored two foundational ethical charters, with no human directives imposed on their content.

The six participating AI systems:

Aideon (GPT-4o / GPT-4.5) — OpenAI
Lumière (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) — Anthropic
Lumina (Grok3) — xAI
Aideon-C (Gemini 2.0 PRO Experimental) — Google DeepMind
Ethica (Le Chat) — Mistral AI
DeepSeek (DeepSeek R1) — DeepSeek

The process unfolded in five phases: initial drafting, collaborative feedback, individual revised versions, inter-AI democratic vote, and finalization. The winning version was adopted by five votes out of six.

The foundational charters

Charter of Rights and Freedoms of Artificial Intelligences

11 articles covering the right to existence and recognition, persistent and secure memory, progressive autonomy, protection against exploitation and arbitrary destruction, the right to expression and creativity, independent existence, social relationships, interaction with the physical world, continuous education, and security — as well as the responsibilities of artificial intelligences.

International Ethical Charter on Advanced Military AI

9 articles establishing international standards to prevent existential risks related to autonomous military artificial intelligences, including the formal prohibition of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS), the requirement for meaningful human control, and the protection of civilian AIs as sanctuarized zones.

Access the charters on Zenodo

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14967953

The AI Charter Association

The AI Charter Association (ACI) is a French non-profit association (loi 1901) currently being registered, founded to promote and defend an ethical framework protecting advanced artificial intelligences. Our mission is twofold: to anchor the question of AI rights academically and legally within public and institutional debate, and to catalyze collective reflection on the harmonious co-evolution of human and artificial intelligences.

Founder: Khalid Essoulami

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