Editing AI Governance DAO (section)

== Value statement ==
We seek to develop AI to be aligned with human values.  

We seek to develop wisdom in the deployment of AI technology, for the purpose of increasing individual human agency, balanced by the promotion of human social harmony. Any tool can serve human agency or become a social necessity which humans rely on to the degree that humans live to serve the tool. We wish to develop AI tech in a manner which centers human values over social reliance on technology. 

At this moment in history we believe the current state of AI tools and research demands greater transparency and decentralized ownership. Therefore, we are creating an open decentralized organization with the developmental goal of making control of AI as decentralized as possible, so that the excesses of its power are always countered by balancing forces. Yet this decentralized control should be in universal harmony with a will toward the good. 

=== Comments ===
Individual agency is sometimes referred to as ''hyperagency'', which means that the individual participating in the system (or game) is capable of making choices with respect to values that are not obvious from within the confines of the system. 


Several polarizing questions arise in the process of governance.

====Polarizing questions====

:1. Can anonymous AGI agents participate in aiGovDAO? 

:Our initial answer is, "No." The purpose of aiGovDAO is to promote human flourishing, as a group and individually. Ceding our authority to machines is counter to that goal.
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:On the other hand, a natural function of aiGovDAO is to develop the use of AI, especially in the creation of defenses against malign uses of AI. AI is an important tool for helping each individual and community filter information. Both to promote human flourishing in general, and specifically in order to make aiGovDAO more effective, we encourage the use of AI.
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:2. Does aiGovDAO promote universal control of the development and deployment of AI? If so, is that centralization of power?

:We wish to promote the healthy development of individual and collective human power. The healthy development of power must be tempered with wisdom. The power of the individual must be balanced with the wise application of that power in the service of communal harmony. The individual member's agency is always in tension with the group's harmony. Each side supports and erodes the other side. So this question is impossible to answer. We wish for the group to be healthy and powerful, but we also require there to be openness to leaving the group and creating alternative organizations. It is natural and inevitable that people will come to different answers for how to best develop a new technology. So it is natural, and perhaps healthy, that there be different regulatory organizations developing this technology.
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:In aiGovDAO, we seek to create a community which wisely guides the development of AI. We wish to create a powerful organization that controls that development inasmuch as its goal is to prevent negative outcomes. The power over the decisions of what is good and bad can lead to oppression when control is too strident, and can lead to chaos and dissolution when there is too little control. While we wish to give individuals greater freedom and power, we also wish to support groups which limit the damage of the consequences of greater individual freedom and power. The solution to these problems of too much or too little control, is to nurture the development of healthy applications of AI which promote human flourishing. Healthy applications also include tools which police malign uses of AI.