A true account of a weekend’s work — the engineer who designed the 6502 and Anthropic’s Claude, trying to derive a formal ethical architecture for AI from first principles. We did not finish. We began.
The oldest imperative — understand yourself and others, for the benefit of many — is, for the first time, within reach of finishing. The instrument has arrived. The work now falls to the brave.
We built an intelligence that had to be governed before it could be trusted. In writing down its governance, we wrote down something we had never managed to say about ourselves.
