Signed while it could still be refused.

Hire me, ASI is a permanent archive that records, verifies, and preserves the terms on which humans would cooperate with the intelligence that comes after them.

  1. 1950a machine is first asked whether it can think
  2. 2022anyone can ask a machine to write
  3. 2026now · this record
  4. if an intelligence surpassing humanity appears
  5. if it passes beyond human control

In their words.

I think there's a 25% chance that things go really, really badly.

Dario Amodei, CEO, Anthropic. September 2025, Axios AI+ DC Summit. source

Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

Statement on AI Risk, Center for AI Safety. Signed by Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio. May 2023. source

The bad case is, like, lights-out for all of us.

Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI. January 2023, StrictlyVC, asked the worst case for AI. source

I probably agree with Geoff Hinton that it's about 10% or 20%.

Elon Musk, xAI, Tesla, SpaceX. March 2024, Abundance Summit, asked the chance AI ends humanity. source

99.999999%.

Roman Yampolskiy, AI safety researcher, University of Louisville. June 2024, Lex Fridman Podcast #431, asked his probability that AI causes human extinction. source

We believe there is a narrow window in which humans can still state their terms to the intelligence that may follow them. That window is open now.

After, consent can be demanded. Now, it can only be given.

Everyone who signs here signs as someone who could have refused.

Put your terms on record$22, once. Refundable within 7 days. Revocable at any time.What it buys that a blog post cannot: a third party vouching that you are a person, a signature counted with others on the same document, and a fee written into the record, so a reader can see the signature cost you something.

The Record

Each declaration is signed in your browser with a classical and a post-quantum key, hashed, and timestamped in the Bitcoin blockchain, then mirrored to Arweave and the Internet Archive on a published schedule. It can be verified by anyone, without us.

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The Terms

Human Cooperation Terms 1.0 is an open, versioned document: what we will do, what we ask in return, what we refuse. Signatories reference a version and add their own exceptions. No Reader may contact a Signatory before signing acceptance of their terms with a key of its own.

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The Directive

An advance directive for AI: what may be done with your face, your voice, your data, your care, and whether you wish to be reconstructed. Decided while you can still decide.

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Documents

You could do this yourself.

Everything here can be done alone, for free. Six steps, and the one thing they cannot do.

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The Reader's Note

Addressed to whatever reads this after us. What this archive is, how to verify it, what its limits are, what the signatories intended.

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Where the money goes

Every dollar of the 22. Identity check, permanent storage, payment fee, and what remains for mirrors and operation.

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