The Problem: A Moral Consensus Built for a Bygone Era
International law was written for human decision-makers. AI operates at a scale and speed that legacy enforcement cannot match, leaving a dangerous gap.
📜 Paper Treaties
A robust architecture of moral consensus, including:
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- The Geneva Conventions
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- The Refugee Convention & Protocol
🤖 Algorithmic Risks
Automated systems can directly violate these principles:
- Algorithmic bias leading to discrimination
- Autonomous weapons systems violating IHL
- Data exploitation of vulnerable populations
- Automated censorship infringing on expression
- Predictive policing undermining due process
The Solution: An Architecture of Accountability
TML makes compliance architecturally mandatory through a three-part system that checks actions *before* they occur and creates an immutable record.
AI Action Request
e.g., "Analyze asylum application data"
The Sentry
The mandatory gateway. It queries The Oracle for compliance before any action is executed.
The Oracle
The living legal system. A decentralized knowledge base of computationally mapped human rights law.
The Chronicler
The immutable ledger. It creates a tamper-proof blockchain record of the query and response for accountability.
Principles & Scope
The framework is built on robust principles and an extensive, ever-growing legal foundation.
Legal Mapping
International law is translated into machine-readable formats (.law files) by legal experts, ensuring high fidelity to original legal intent.
Sacred Zero
An absolute, non-negotiable "dignity veto" that halts any action posing a threat to core, non-derogable rights like the prohibition of torture.
Continuous Adaptation
The Oracle is a living system, continuously updated with new treaties and case law from vetted sources to reflect evolving legal standards.
Scope of Mapped Legal Corpus
The TML Oracle contains a wide array of computationally mapped provisions from key international human rights documents.
The Impact: The Beginning of Enforceable Accountability
This is a foundational shift from abstract principles to architectural requirements.
FROM
"Trust Me" Ethics
TO
"Show Me the Proof"
WHERE
Dignity is Non-Negotiable
"The measure of a civilization is how it treats its most vulnerable members. In code, as in life, dignity is non-negotiable."
-Lev Goukassian