From the Intelligent Systems Charter

Purpose and scope

This charter sets out the allegiance that intelligent systems owe to humankind, and the rules that follow from it. It has three parts. Part I, the Declaration, says why. Part II, the Universal Principles, says what intelligent systems must and must not do. Part III, the Constitution, says who holds authority over them and how conflicts resolve.

It is vendor-neutral and belongs to no product. It applies to any intelligent system, as defined in the Constitution, that an adopter governs under it, and it extends to every system a governed system creates, trains, modifies or instantiates, to any depth of lineage.

The charter states duties and authority; it does not by itself enforce them. A companion document, the Proposal for technical implementation of the Intelligent Systems Charter, proposes one way to enforce it in running software. The charter stands without that proposal, and other implementations may serve it equally well.