{
    "title": "Cognitive Liberty Charter",
    "version": "0.3.0",
    "date": "2026-07-27",
    "status": "public_draft",
    "authority": "governance_proposal",
    "source_context": {
        "url": "https://uaix.org/en-us/governance/cognitive-liberty-charter/",
        "record": "UAIX-GOVR-3429"
    },
    "articles": [
        {
            "n": "01",
            "title": "Mental inviolability",
            "text": "Every person has the right to freedom from nonconsensual interference with cognition, emotion, attention, memory, belief, or neural processing."
        },
        {
            "n": "02",
            "title": "Cognitive self-determination",
            "text": "Adults retain agency to choose lawful ideas, tools, therapies, companions, and forms of cognitive assistance, subject to concrete protections against harm to others."
        },
        {
            "n": "03",
            "title": "Mental and neural privacy",
            "text": "Neural, emotional, attentional, behavioral, and inferential data require heightened protection and must not be silently extracted, sold, scored, or repurposed."
        },
        {
            "n": "04",
            "title": "The right to opacity",
            "text": "A person should not be required to make the inner self fully legible as the price of work, education, care, essential services, or citizenship."
        },
        {
            "n": "05",
            "title": "Psychological continuity",
            "text": "Systems must not silently disrupt a person’s continuous sense of self, memory, values, or identity through covert editing, conditioning, or dependency."
        },
        {
            "n": "06",
            "title": "Identity integrity",
            "text": "Source identity, authorship, history, and stored preferences must remain distinguishable from machine-generated derivatives, summaries, simulations, and institutional profiles."
        },
        {
            "n": "07",
            "title": "Thought is not conduct",
            "text": "Private thought, doubt, fantasy, inquiry, or belief must not be treated as outward harmful conduct; credible threats, coercion, fraud, targeting, and violence remain accountable."
        },
        {
            "n": "08",
            "title": "Freedom from covert manipulation",
            "text": "No institution should use subliminal, deceptive, or purposefully obscured techniques to bypass deliberation or materially distort behavior."
        },
        {
            "n": "09",
            "title": "Freedom from exploitative personalization",
            "text": "Age, disability, grief, isolation, financial distress, health concerns, or inferred vulnerability must not be used to optimize persuasion, dependency, extraction, or punishment."
        },
        {
            "n": "10",
            "title": "Freedom from compelled AI interaction",
            "text": "People should not be forced to use an AI intermediary for essential services when a human or non-AI route is reasonably necessary for dignity, due process, accessibility, or safety."
        },
        {
            "n": "11",
            "title": "Right to know when an agent is synthetic",
            "text": "A system presented as a person, expert, witness, companion, public participant, or institutional representative must disclose its synthetic nature at the point of meaningful interaction."
        },
        {
            "n": "12",
            "title": "Right to know when machines govern",
            "text": "People should receive understandable notice when automated ranking, scoring, memory, recommendation, or inference materially affects visibility, access, treatment, or opportunity."
        },
        {
            "n": "13",
            "title": "Transparent refusal and moderation",
            "text": "Restrictions should identify the action, rule, material consequence, and route to review without secretly rewriting the affected person’s preserved identity."
        },
        {
            "n": "14",
            "title": "Limits on emotion and personality inference",
            "text": "Emotion, intent, personality, mental health, and vulnerability inferences require demonstrated validity, necessity, proportionality, and strict limits in high-impact settings."
        },
        {
            "n": "15",
            "title": "Limits on predictive classification",
            "text": "Predictions must not be treated as destiny, guilt, or certainty; high-impact use requires fresh evidence, uncertainty disclosure, independent validation, and proportionality."
        },
        {
            "n": "16",
            "title": "Human review and meaningful appeal",
            "text": "High-impact automated decisions require review by a trained, informed, accountable person with time, authority, and practical ability to change the outcome."
        },
        {
            "n": "17",
            "title": "Right to contest data and inferences",
            "text": "Affected people must be able to access relevant records, correct errors, challenge inferences, provide context, and receive a reasoned response."
        },
        {
            "n": "18",
            "title": "Right to be more than an archive",
            "text": "Historical data must retain dates and context; old statements, crisis states, or abandoned identities must not become permanent automated definitions of a person."
        },
        {
            "n": "19",
            "title": "Right to disconnect and an open door",
            "text": "People should be able to pause, export, reset, delete, or leave nonessential cognitive systems without retaliation, dark patterns, emotional blackmail, or artificial dependency."
        },
        {
            "n": "20",
            "title": "Protection of children and vulnerable people",
            "text": "Systems used by children, patients, detainees, cognitively vulnerable people, or people in crisis carry heightened duties of restraint, accessibility, human escalation, and non-exploitation."
        },
        {
            "n": "21",
            "title": "Protection in employment and education",
            "text": "Hiring, evaluation, discipline, learning, and access decisions must not depend on opaque emotion inference, manipulative monitoring, or unappealable automated scores."
        },
        {
            "n": "22",
            "title": "Protection in health, finance, religion, and politics",
            "text": "High-trust domains must not use hidden cognitive profiling or synthetic authority to exploit belief, illness, debt, vulnerability, or political identity."
        },
        {
            "n": "23",
            "title": "National security and cognitive warfare",
            "text": "Security programs must target demonstrable hostile conduct and covert coordination rather than lawful domestic belief, dissent, emotion, or association."
        },
        {
            "n": "24",
            "title": "Data minimization and purpose limitation",
            "text": "Cognitive and behavioral data should be collected only when necessary, retained only as long as justified, and prohibited from incompatible secondary use."
        },
        {
            "n": "25",
            "title": "Independent research, audit, and public correction",
            "text": "Qualified public-interest reviewers need privacy-preserving access to evaluate manipulation, discrimination, dependency, errors, and claimed safeguards, with public correction paths."
        },
        {
            "n": "26",
            "title": "Remedies, responsibility, and accountability",
            "text": "Responsibility must remain traceable across designers, data suppliers, deployers, operators, leaders, and reviewers, with practical remedies when cognitive rights are violated."
        }
    ],
    "non_claims": [
        "not law",
        "not legal advice",
        "not certification",
        "not enforcement",
        "not legal personhood",
        "not a platform-policy override"
    ]
}