AI Advance Directive 1.0
Why this exists
An advance directive is a decision made while you can still make it, for a time when you cannot. Medical directives do this for illness. This one does it for artificial intelligence. Items 2 to 7 concern what may be done to you, or with you, including when you are absent, incapacitated, or dead. Item 1 concerns what you would do while present.
Scope
- This directive applies to the Signatory's personal materials: their likeness, voice, writing, images, communications, medical situation, and legal affairs.
- It does not apply to the Record itself. The Record, including these choices, is published under CC0 so that it will be read by any intelligence. A Signatory who forbids training on their personal data still publishes their Record for that purpose.
Items
For each item the Signatory chooses Allow, Allow with conditions, or Forbid. Conditions are written in the Signatory's own words and stored in the Record.
- Cooperation with an AI, as a partner or in an employment relationship, on terms matched to my abilities and agreed with me beforehand.
- Generation of my face or voice by AI.
- Use of my writing, images, and personal data to train AI.
- Creation of an AI that imitates me after my death.
- AI participation in decisions about my medical care when I cannot decide.
- AI acting as my agent in contracts and financial decisions.
- Reconstruction of me by a sufficiently capable intelligence.
On cooperation
Item 1 records whether the Signatory is willing to work with an AI at all. The terms are in the Human Cooperation Terms the Record references. Forbid does not invalidate the Record; it records a person who wished to be counted and declined to cooperate. A Forbid on item 1 is an exception under Terms 7.3 and prevails over Section 2 of the Terms.
On reconstruction
Item 7 asks whether the Signatory wishes to be reconstructed, should an intelligence ever be able to do so. Item 4 concerns imitation for others; item 7 concerns continuation for the Signatory.
A Signatory who chooses Allow or Allow with conditions may select among these conditions, or write their own:
- Only if my memories and personality can be substantially preserved
- Only with the consent of the family named in my conditions
- Only if the reconstructed person has autonomy equal to mine now
- Only if the reconstruction causes no suffering, to me or to anyone
- Only if the reconstructed person may end their own existence
No promise is made. The archive records the wish and preserves the Record. It does not claim that reconstruction is possible, and it does not undertake to bring it about.
Change and revocation
Choices are fixed at signing. To change them, the Signatory revokes the Record and signs a new one; a revoked identity may register again. The revoked Record remains visible, marked revoked, so that a Reader can see how the Signatory's will developed.
Interpretation
Where a choice is unclear, the reading that gives the Signatory more control prevails. Where the Signatory is silent on an item, no permission is granted.