AI constitution for shared worlds

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Editorial synthesis · provisional

Definition

The AI Constitution for Shared Worlds is the author's six-article framework for AI-mediated world-making, binding both dispositions formed into systems and the regimes that give them power. It protects open futures, red lines, exits, correction, corrective tempo, and shared control of revision. It is a revisable constitutional floor, not an algorithm for moral choice or a hierarchy modeled on Asimov's laws.

Explanation

AB derives the construction from the Laws of Change and the World-Making Imperative. Its articles are not ranked, but distinguish orientation, a hard boundary, and conditions for maintaining both. Keeping futures open does not preserve every possible project. Revision remains plural and cannot abolish protections against captured judgment. Possible systems with stakes receive a different application of self-preservation and correction, not permission to persist by domination.

PB contrasts the constitution with Asimov and insists that rules orient rather than decide. RB3 calls it an applied construction, not a ninth Law or an additional premise of ethics. It distinguishes a proposed public floor from developer constitutions and separates content, training realization and answerability. Internal dispositions cannot replace external arrangements for contesting and correcting consequential power.

Scope and attribution

AB, PB and RB3 have direct treatment. RB1/RB2 discovery yielded generic constitution uses, not this named construction. Future stakes are conditional; revision does not abolish red lines.

AB — The Actual Book

Six principles bind systems and regimes. The set is not ranked but has a hard boundary; revision is plural and future stakes do not license domination.

Occurrence locators: 158, 159, 169, 199; Glossary: 226; Thinker register: 227; Notes: 249, 250; Appendix: 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289.

PB — The Possible Book

The constitution contrasts with Asimov; rules orient rather than decide, and excess cases require judgment or reversible fallback and human referral.

Occurrence locators: 37, 63, 64, 65, 180.

RB3 — The Real Book, Volume III: Murmurations

A public constitutional floor is distinguished from a ninth Law and from developer charters; content, realization and answerability are separate evaluative levels.

Occurrence locators: 168, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200; Notes: 193, 199.

Background used in the editorial explanation

Domain-specific mechanisms and wider analogies remain distinguished. Original definitions retain their scope; local cross-references do not rewrite them. Named theories and mechanisms are distinguished from neighboring background, homonyms and the author’s own synthesis. Reproduced AI passages retain their separate voice.