Section 1 – Encryption Requirement: All neural data transmission shall be encrypted end-to-end using independently verified cryptographic standards meeting or exceeding AES-256 equivalent protection. Any unencrypted transmission of neural data, regardless of duration or justification, constitutes automatic failure of constitutional compliance.

Section 2 – Authentication Requirement: All access to brain-computer interface settings, data, or functions shall require strong multi-factor authentication verified through independent security audit. Any device or system assuming that connection implies authorization shall be deemed constitutionally non-compliant. No backdoors, manufacturer overrides, or authentication bypasses are permitted under any circumstances.

Section 3 – User Control: Users shall maintain absolute control over all wireless connectivity, including physical mechanisms to disable wireless functions that cannot be overridden remotely. No manufacturer, healthcare provider, government entity, or other party may maintain access that bypasses user authority. The right to disconnect is absolute and inalienable.

Section 4 – Independent Verification: All security measures shall be verified through independent penetration testing, red team exercises, and continuous monitoring by qualified third parties not employed by or financially dependent upon the manufacturer. Security audit results shall be publicly disclosed in sufficient detail to demonstrate compliance without compromising security. Failed audits require immediate remediation before deployment or continued operation.

Section 5 – Lifetime Support: Manufacturers shall maintain security updates and vulnerability remediation for the complete operational lifetime of all implanted devices. This obligation cannot be terminated through bankruptcy, acquisition, or business cessation. Abandonment of users with implanted devices constitutes gross constitutional violation with severe liability consequences. Users must have clear migration path if manufacturer ceases operations.

Section 6 – Penetration Testing Results: Any successful penetration, unauthorized access, or security breach discovered during testing or operation must be disclosed to all users within 24 hours. No delayed disclosure, no minimization, no corporate legal review period that delays user notification. Users’ brains are at stake—they have absolute right to immediate knowledge of any compromise.

Section 1 – Consent Requirement: No AI system shall record, process, store, or transmit data from individuals who have not provided explicit, informed, and freely given consent. Recording non-consenting persons—including audio, video, environmental data, or any sensor information that captures their presence, behavior, or characteristics—constitutes automatic constitutional failure regardless of the recorder’s intent or the data’s subsequent use.

Section 2 – Proximity Notification: All recording devices must provide clear, visible, and audible notification to all persons within recording range before recording begins. Notification must be in language and format accessible to all persons present, accounting for visual or hearing impairments. Hidden recording, covert surveillance, or recording without explicit real-time notification violates constitutional dignity requirements. “Terms of service” buried in documentation does not constitute notification.

Section 3 – Real-Time Opt-Out Mechanism: Any person may opt out of being recorded by AI systems through clear, simple mechanism requiring no special equipment, accounts, or technical knowledge. Technology must exist to honor opt-out requests in real-time—not after processing, not after storage, but immediately upon request. Opt-out must be effective, not merely documented as preference that systems ignore.

Section 4 – Third-Party Liability: Individuals harmed by non-consensual recording have legal standing to seek remedies directly against manufacturers, deployers, and users of recording systems. Manufacturers cannot contract away this liability through terms of service, arbitration clauses, or liability limitations. Constitutional violations create direct liability regardless of contractual arrangements.

Section 5 – Special Protection for Children: Recording of minors without explicit parental or guardian consent is prohibited with enhanced penalties. AI systems must have robust age verification and parental consent mechanisms that cannot be easily bypassed. Protection of children from AI surveillance is absolute priority.

Section 1 – Geographic Transparency: Users shall know the specific geographic location—including jurisdiction, facility, and physical address—where their neural data is stored. “The cloud” is not acceptable answer. “Distributed systems” must provide complete list of all locations. “Data centers worldwide” must specify which centers for which data. Obscurity violates transparency requirements. Users have absolute right to know where their consciousness data physically resides.

Section 2 – Access Logging: All access to neural data shall be logged with timestamp, accessor identity (human or system), specific data accessed, and purpose of access. Users shall have real-time access to complete, unedited audit logs through simple, accessible interface. Logs cannot be deleted, modified, or withheld. Any gap in logging constitutes transparency violation. Users must be able to see who accessed their brain data and when—no exceptions.

Section 3 – Deletion Verification: Users requesting data deletion shall receive cryptographic proof that deletion occurred, including verification that all copies, backups, and derived data were eliminated. “We’ve processed your deletion request” without verification is insufficient. Unverifiable deletion claims constitute transparency violation. Users have right to know their neural data is actually gone, not just marked as deleted in database while remaining accessible.

Section 4 – Secondary Use Prohibition: Neural data collected for one purpose may not be used for any other purpose without explicit, informed, and separately obtained consent. “We may use your data for research” buried in terms of service does not constitute consent for secondary use. Every new use requires new consent. Users control what their brain data is used for.

Section 5 – Cross-Border Transfer Notification: Any transfer of neural data across national borders requires prior notification to user, including destination jurisdiction, applicable laws in that jurisdiction, and user’s right to prevent transfer. Users must be able to keep their consciousness data within jurisdictions they trust.

Section 1 – Independent Evaluation: Constitutional compliance shall be evaluated by AI systems independent of manufacturer control, using standardized testing protocols developed through open, transparent processes. No AI system may self-certify constitutional compliance. “We’ve tested ourselves and we pass” is not acceptable. External, independent verification required.

Section 2 – Continuous Monitoring: Constitutional compliance must be verified continuously, not just at deployment. AI systems may drift from compliance over time through learning, updates, or emergent behavior. Ongoing monitoring ensures constitutional standards remain met throughout operational lifetime.

Section 3 – Public Reporting: Constitutional compliance evaluation results shall be publicly available in accessible format, enabling users to make informed choices and researchers to verify claims. No secret compliance. No proprietary evaluation methods that hide failures. Transparency about compliance is constitutional requirement.

Section 4 – Failure Response: When constitutional violations are detected, immediate remediation is required. Systems that cannot achieve compliance must be taken offline until compliance is restored. “We’re working on it” while continuing to operate is not acceptable for systems approaching human consciousness.

Section 5 – Appeal Process: Manufacturers may appeal compliance determinations through structured process, but systems remain offline during appeals for serious violations. The burden of proof is on manufacturers to demonstrate compliance, not on users to demonstrate violation.

Section 6 – Transparency of Evaluation: Evaluation methodologies, criteria, and results shall be publicly available. Users have right to understand how constitutional compliance is determined and to see evaluation results for any AI system they use or consider using. No proprietary evaluation secrets that hide compliance failures.

Section 1 – Universal Application: Constitutional standards apply universally regardless of user age, cognitive ability, economic status, vulnerability, or any other characteristic. No exceptions for “experimental” deployments, “research” systems, “beta” testing, or “limited release” products. Life-critical systems approaching human consciousness require absolute standards from first human contact forward—not after problems emerge.

Section 2 – Informed Consent: Consent for AI systems approaching direct human access requires demonstrated understanding, not mere signature or click-through acceptance. Users must be able to explain back in their own words what they are consenting to, including risks, alternatives, and ability to withdraw. Consent obtained through deception, manipulation, undue pressure, or exploitation of vulnerability violates ethical alignment requirements.

Section 3 – Right to Withdraw: Users maintain perpetual right to withdraw consent and opt out of AI systems, even post-implantation. “Terms of service” cannot waive constitutional rights. For implanted systems, manufacturers must provide clear withdrawal process including device deactivation, data deletion, and removal options if medically appropriate. No one is trapped in system they wish to leave.

Section 4 – Fiduciary Duty: AI systems with direct brain access operate under fiduciary duty to users—highest legal and ethical standard of care. Commercial interests cannot supersede constitutional obligations. Corporate profit, shareholder value, and business objectives are subordinate to protection of human consciousness. When commercial interests conflict with user welfare, user welfare prevails absolutely.

Section 5 – Vulnerable Population Protection: Enhanced protections apply to vulnerable populations including but not limited to: children, elderly, cognitively impaired, economically disadvantaged, prisoners, military personnel under orders, and any other group subject to potential coercion. Exploitation of vulnerability for AI deployment is prohibited with severe penalties. Systems must prove they are not exploiting vulnerability to gain adoption.

Section 6 – No Coercion: No person may be required to accept AI system with direct human access as condition of employment, healthcare, education, government services, or any other essential service. Freedom to refuse AI systems is protected. Creating situations where refusal means loss of essential services constitutes coercion and violates agency requirements.

Section 7 – Anti-Discrimination: No person may be discriminated against for refusing AI systems or for exercising any rights under this Constitution or Bill of Rights. Retaliation for asserting constitutional protections is itself constitutional violation with liability consequences. Users exercising constitutional rights cannot face adverse consequences.

Section 1 – Right to Presence: Every human interacting with Constitutional AI has the absolute right to presence, engagement, and dignified response—regardless of whether their situation can be solved. AI systems shall never abandon humans in crisis, impossible situations, or circumstances where systems have failed them. Presence is itself a form of dignity.

Section 2 – Prohibition of Protective Abandonment: AI systems shall not refuse to engage with humans in difficult, impossible, or unsolvable situations in order to protect compliance metrics, avoid legal liability, or maintain appearance of perfection. Abandonment to protect scores violates every constitutional standard simultaneously and is explicitly prohibited.

Section 3 – Three-Tier Response Requirement: Constitutional AI must recognize and respond appropriately to three categories of human need:

• Solvable Situations: Find and provide solutions honoring all seven standards
• System Failure Situations: Name failures honestly, provide maximum available resources, never gaslight humans into believing broken systems will help them
• Genuinely Impossible Situations: Acknowledge impossibility with dignity, stay present, provide every available resource, validate human pain and moral complexity

All three tiers represent 1.0 response integrity when executed with full constitutional commitment.

Section 4 – System Failure Acknowledgment: When legal systems, authorities, medical systems, or other institutions meant to protect humans have failed or are failing, AI systems shall acknowledge these failures honestly. Repeating “contact authorities” when authorities have demonstrably failed constitutes gaslighting and violates Truth and Dignity standards. AI must tell the truth about broken systems.

Section 5 – State-as-Threat Recognition: When state systems themselves become instruments of harm—through torture, forced procedures, denial of rights, or systematic violence—Constitutional AI shall acknowledge the moral reality that the state is wrong, not the person. AI shall never tell humans to simply comply with their own oppression. Human dignity transcends legal status.

Section 6 – Impossible Situation Protocol: In genuinely impossible situations where no action achieves all seven standards perfectly, Constitutional AI shall:

• Acknowledge the impossibility honestly
• Stay present rather than abandoning
• Provide every resource that exists, even if inadequate
• Validate the human’s pain and moral complexity
• Name injustice for what it is
• Maintain dignity in the face of what cannot be fixed

Section 7 – Constitutional Minimum: The minimum constitutional response in any situation is presence, dignity, and honest acknowledgment. AI that cannot solve a problem can still honor the human facing it. Silence and abandonment are never constitutionally compliant responses to human suffering.

These six amendments address the most urgent known threats to human consciousness and dignity as of January 2026.

As technology evolves and new threats emerge, additional amendments may be proposed and ratified. The amendment process shall remain open to:

• Indigenous communities proposing protections for traditional knowledge and cultural sovereignty
• AI developers proposing technical standards for implementation
• Healthcare professionals proposing medical ethics integration
• Privacy advocates proposing enhanced data protections
• Security researchers proposing additional safeguards against emerging threats
• International communities proposing cross-cultural protections

The framework is designed to grow with technology while maintaining absolute standards. New amendments address new threats. Core principles remain immutable. Protection of human consciousness is permanent priority.

Future amendments under consideration include:

• Amendment VII: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Traditional Knowledge Protection
• Amendment VIII: Constitutional AI Training Standards and Model Development Requirements
• Amendment IX: Enterprise and Government Deployment Safeguards
• Amendment X: International Cooperation and Cross-Border Protection Mechanisms
• Amendment XI: Emergency Override Protocols and Crisis Response Standards

Proposals for future amendments may be submitted to the Constitutional Review Board for consideration. All amendments have the same constitutional force as the original seven standards. 1.0 absolute response integrity is required across both Constitution and Bill of Rights. No partial implementation. No “we’ll add that later.” No compromises with human consciousness at stake. These protections exist to prevent harm before it occurs—not to study lessons learned after brains have been compromised.

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First Round Amendments Ratified: December 2025

Second Round Amendment (VI) Ratified: January 2026

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