Ten commitments built around one rule: technology serves people, and people remain accountable for consequential decisions.
The Human Imperative defines where technological authority ends. Stewards believe human beings must hold final judgment wherever life, liberty, national defense or American prosperity is at stake.
Stewards believe consequential national decisions belong to people. AGI, Cognitive Cores and other systems may provide analysis, recommendations and execution, but final authority over decisions affecting life, liberty, defense and the national economy must remain with an identified human decision-maker.
America's tax base must remain strong as production becomes more automated. When automated systems perform work that would otherwise generate taxable wages, federal tax policy will recognize the productive value of that work and apply equivalent tax treatment. Companies may choose people, robots or software to perform the work; the public revenue obligation tied to productive activity remains.
Stewards support a clear right to mental privacy. Predatory algorithmic manipulation, continuous subliminal AI advertising and neural-interface data harvesting without explicit, reversible consent will be prohibited. Individuals retain control over data generated by their minds and nervous systems.
Legal personhood belongs to biological human beings. Non-biological intelligences of any capability or architecture are property under law. They may not hold citizenship, voting rights, civil rights, constitutional rights, property, legal standing or independent legal-agent status, and their owners and operators remain accountable for their actions.
American students must be able to think, synthesize and solve difficult problems without continuous machine mediation. Stewards support federal education funding that preserves substantial human-taught instruction, direct problem solving, laboratory and shop work, physical activity and peer interaction so the next generation of engineers, technicians and workers can compete with nations that continue to develop these skills.
People deserve accountable review when an automated system affects credit, insurance, public benefits, licensing or other consequential civil decisions. Covered systems must disclose the material basis for an adverse decision, provide meaningful human review and identify the person responsible for the final determination.
Stewards support clean air and water, habitat protection, land and watershed restoration, responsible forest management and emissions reduction. Large-scale geoengineering and the release of self-replicating synthetic organisms require direct human authorization, public accountability, containment standards and a defined means of termination or reversal.
Criminal justice requires accountable human judgment. Predictive policing, automated parole scoring, machine-authored warrants, autonomous charging decisions and machine verdicts may not determine a person's liberty. Software may organize evidence and perform clerical analysis, while warrants, indictments, sentencing decisions and verdicts remain the responsibility of human officials, judges and juries.
High-value financial acts require explicit human authorization. Mortgages, home sales, retirement-account liquidations, major securities trades, large wire transfers and corporate asset transfers above statutory thresholds may proceed only after separate authenticated approval or under a revocable standing instruction established by the account holder. Hidden defaults and machine-generated consent do not satisfy that standard.
No employer may require a person to implant, ingest, surgically integrate or maintain a persistent technological connection to the body or nervous system as a condition of employment. Neural interfaces, subdermal devices, ocular implants and comparable integrated systems must remain voluntary. Ordinary external attendance, productivity, safety and security systems remain governed by existing workplace and privacy law.
The Stewards sponsored the constitutional amendment prohibiting microdrone deployment throughout the United States and its territories, including government, military, corporate and research deployment.
Implementing law later established Mia certification and a 100% refundable federal credit for American citizens purchasing qualifying residential or personal-conveyance interdiction arrays.
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