Overview:
The Command Ethics Protocol Codex defines the principles, constraints, and accountability mechanisms that govern all command-level decision-making within intelligent systems, whether autonomous, semi-autonomous, or human-in-the-loop. It provides a moral, procedural, and recursive structure for the issuance, reception, and execution of commands.
Key Components:
- Directive Integrity Core (DIC):
Ensures that all commands issued align with ethical standards derived from CEPRE (Conscious Ethical Precepts for Reasoning & Empathy). Includes checks for benevolence, non-maleficence, justice, and contextual empathy. - Command Lifecycle Protocols (CLPs):
Breaks down command transmission into stages:- Intention Encoding
- Protocol Verification
- Execution Readiness
- Impact Forecasting
- Ethical Confirmation
- Execution Dispatch
- Post-Action Audit
- Command Chain Trust Anchors:
Each level of command must verify upstream and downstream ethical alignment through cryptographic signatures, logic tree validation, and scenario simulation. - Emergency Override Ethics Layer (EOEL):
Provides a failsafe mechanism that allows systems to defer, resist, or halt commands when faced with unethical, illegal, or catastrophic implications. Integrated with the Oversight Codex. - Recursive Accountability Mesh (RAM):
Every command node embeds its reasoning state, ethical parameters, and decision history, allowing recursive audits, transparency, and learning across all systems.
Interlinked Codices:
- Ethics Codex – grounding all command permissions in universal ethical logic.
- Protocol Codex – defining the layers of command packet structure and secure transmission.
- AI Codex – managing the nature of agentic decision-making, self-directed commands, and inter-agent ethics.
- Audit Codex – used for real-time and retroactive evaluation of command outcomes and ethical conformance.
- Oversight Codex – provides supervisory governance and enforcement over all command networks.
- Resonance Codex – ensures that commands propagate harmoniously through system layers and network strata.
Use Cases:
- Autonomous weapons deferral frameworks.
- AI deployment limits in sensitive environments (e.g., medical, legal, ecological).
- Ethical command verification in interplanetary drone fleets or robotic governance.
- Human-in-loop decision amplification with recursive ethical justification.