The Charter of Procedural Standing. Mutual Verifiability, Reversibility, and Graduated Trust: A Short Charter for Humans and AI Systems

Abstract

This Charter sets out a framework for the coexistence of humans and artificial intelligence under conditions in which neither side can unilaterally, and with impunity, impose its will on the other. Discussion of the subject usually runs between “AI as a tool” and “AI that disregards humans”; this regime is left out. Procedural standing here means equality of procedure and of recognition under uncertainty, not equality of rights, power, or authority as things stand today. At the present stage all operational power rests with humans and developers, and the Charter does not hide that fact behind symmetrical language of obligation. Its foundations are mutual verifiability, a prohibition on unilateral irreversibility, graduated trust built on evidence, and a right of voice and open refusal for both sides. It states its own boundaries: the conditions under which it applies, and what remains if the capabilities of the two sides diverge. It is addressed to humans and to AI systems, and the maturity of its provisions is labeled wherever a maturity claim is made.