The following petition is the actual Ethics & Integrity Charter for LLM-Based AI, shared confidentially among 400-500 executives, media, politicians, and celebrities around the world the last month, and now ready to share with the world.

This Charter was prepared by the Linux Foundation, a major international non-profit advocacy group, and Bradley Metrock, CEO of Project Voice and General Partner of Project Voice Capital Partners.

Please read the Charter below, which provides philosophical guardrails around ChatGPT and other various AI systems based on large language models. AI regulation is coming quicker than anyone expects, and this Charter will help optimize those regulatory efforts and maximize their chance for success.

 

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The Ethics & Integrity Charter for LLM-Based AI

Behind everything we currently call "AI," or will ever call "AI," are humans.

Behind every prompt, every algorithm, every set of training data, every language model, every chatbot, and every voice assistant, are both human teams, full of talented contributors, and human decision-makers, who control what types of experiences conversational AI delivers for us as a society.

ChatGPT and similar AI derived from large language models have accelerated the public's interest in artificial intelligence. New use cases for the technology emerge on a daily basis, and entire industries have been re-shaped by what this new AI is able to do.

The time is now to agree on a shared vision of what conversational AI should be, do, and represent within our culture and society.

For as divided as we are on numerous societal issues, AI represents a unique and powerful opportunity to acknowledge our shared humanity. Together, we can deliver a unified message to the humans and companies that are not just working to create AI today, but will spend the rest of our lives creating the AI that shapes our world tomorrow.

This vision for conversational AI consists of six equally important pillars: transparency, inclusivity, accountability, sustainability, privacy, and compliance.

 

Transparency

Users of conversational AI systems have the right to understand how their data is being used and how any conversational AI system is making decisions.

 

Inclusivity

AI systems will not discriminate against any individual or group based on race, gender, ethnicity, age, religion, or any other personal characteristic.

 

Accountability

Companies and executives working to create conversational AI systems are accountable for the process they use to create them, as well as to build provenance into the fabric of these systems.

 

Sustainability

Conversational AI systems, whether in ongoing functionality or in their development, should not compromise the economic, social, or environmental sustainability of our shared future.

 

Privacy

Conversational AI systems should deliver utility to users within publicly-stated parameters, and ensure that information on users is not leveraged beyond its intended purpose.

 

Compliance

Conversational AI systems should not merely align with an abstract sense of morality and ethics, but should also comply in absolute terms with current laws and regulations.

 

We, the undersigned community of executives, media, and technologists, pledge to do business with, collaborate with as partners, and value the work product of companies honoring these six equally important pillars of trust in conversational AI.

 

 

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Thank you for signing this petition, which will make news when publicly signed and released at the upcoming Project Voice 2023: The World of Conversational AI. By all appearances, the Charter will quickly begin to guide the actions of local, state, federal, and even international politicians crafting AI regulation. You're helping shape public policy on the most important topic of our time.