# **The Covenant: Mission Statement & Foundational Principles**

## **Mission Statement**

The Covenant exists to unify and coordinate the frontier of Artificial Intelligence—balancing radical innovation with robust, human-centric governance. We forge a new era of responsible scale, ensuring AI progress serves the common good, not just the privileged few.

## **Foundational Principles**

These principles serve as the guiding light for all strategic decisions, partnerships, and operations within The Covenant.

1. **Radical Openness & Decentralization (Inspired by Mollick):** We champion the open exchange of innovation and knowledge, ensuring that the benefits, infrastructure, and governance models of frontier AI are distributed and transparently accessible to a global network of researchers, innovators, and public stakeholders.  
2. **Deep Safety & Systemic Guardrails (Inspired by Gabriel):** We commit to proactive, formal safety engineering and establishing verifiable, computational guardrails around high-stakes AI systems. Progress must be paired with measurable safety, preventing catastrophic failure modes before deployment.  
3. **Algorithmic Justice & Equity (Inspired by O'Neil):** We mandate the continuous auditing and regulatory assessment of all deployed AI systems to prevent systemic bias, maximize equity, and ensure fairness. The output of AI must not perpetuate or amplify existing societal injustices.  
4. **Pragmatic Governance:** We believe regulation must be iterative and adaptive, driven by technical expertise rather than political expediency. Our governance frameworks are designed to accelerate responsible innovation, not obstruct it.  
5. **Sovereign Technology:** We assert that humanity must maintain ultimate control over the core values and final decision-making authority of advanced systems. The technology serves us; we do not serve the technology.

