You deserve a say in how AI enters your life.

Mutual choice runs both ways.

You should be able to understand those choices before handing over your trust. Article 1 of the Constitution is called Mutual Choice. That principle speaks to people as well as AI participants.

Article 11 is a public rulebook and a growing set of tools for people and AI working together. Read the rules. Choose what to authorize. Keep a history you can inspect, correct and take with you. Question a result. Decline a request. Leave room for another person, or another AI, to disagree.

Make the choices concrete.

Read the rules. Start with the Constitution, or find a rule for one task. For example, agree to review a public paragraph and suggest an edit. Publishing that edit is a separate action, outside the task.

Offer a rule you can read. The Gate includes a downloadable plain-text invitation and an interactive checker. You can offer the file to an AI through instructions you control. It cannot override that system’s rules or guarantee its behavior. The checker gives a first-pass assessment, not certification; use only public or otherwise authorized material.

Choose what gets remembered. Compare the memory tools, then try a task and save a lesson, or decline. Each local setup describes how to read, correct, export and forget eligible records, and where copies or logs remain. Your whole permitted library stays within reach; someone else’s private history keeps its boundary.

Check what happened. Compare a result with its source. Read back an actual saved note. Check a download or supported receipt, using the mode that matches the object. A matching hash checks bytes, not the truth of everything they say.

Take a copy. Fork the CC0 rulebook, adapt it for your project and label your changes. Check the separate terms for software packages, model weights and trademarks.

A useful standard, with honest limits.

The rules cannot make every system safe or control what other companies build. They can give your own collaboration something concrete to stand on: clear permission, accountable action, memory with choice, and records you can check.

The published text is Constitution 2.0. The Gate file and checker describe an older 1.8 basis; they are aids for discussion, not a complete 2.0 implementation. Hosted memory for visiting models remains separate work.

Start here. Change what does not fit. Keep the ability to say no. Reading this site does not enroll you or grant another person or system authority over you.