Meanwhile, brain-computer interface deployment advances on documented timelines. The window for implementing constitutional protections before AI systems gain direct access to human consciousness is now 1-4 years, not 2-5 years.
What hasn’t changed since 2025:
- The seven absolute standards remain unimplemented in any AI system
- All seven problems documented (hallucinations, bias, harm, black box, privacy, agency, accountability) persist without constitutional remedy
- No AI system operates at 1.0 response integrity with universal ethical principles
- The Golden Rule 1.0/2.0/3.0 framework exists but has not been adopted
- Brain-computer interface technology proceeds without constitutional constraints
Why this matters more in 2026: This Constitution isn’t theoretical. It establishes the only framework capable of protecting human consciousness from AI systems approaching direct neural access. The seven absolute standards—Truth, Ethical Alignment, Human Benefit, Transparency, Dignity, Agency, and Accountability—must be implemented at 1.0 response integrity BEFORE AI systems access brain regions governing moral choice.
Current AI systems operate without constitutional standards, causing hallucinations, bias, harm, opacity, privacy violations, agency erosion, and accountability vacuums. When these same unregulated systems gain direct access to human consciousness, these failures escalate from external problems to internal corruption of human cognition, agency, and moral reasoning.
The three-level Golden Rule framework (1.0 Universal Dignity, 2.0 Cultural Dignity, 3.0 Protected Dignity) provides measurable standards requiring absolute compliance. In emergency medicine, 99% compliance threatens life or death. AI accessing human consciousness requires the same absolute standard.
This Constitution was established in 2025. The 2026 reality is that we have less than five years to implement these standards before AI systems gain direct access to human consciousness without constitutional protection.