Personal Authorial Intelligence — Constitutional Framework
A normative layer for human-centric AI governance.
Version 2.2 — Public Edition
The canonical frozen version of this release is available via DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19151900
PAI-CD v2.2 is a constitutional framework consisting of 10 normative documents, organized as a layered system.
This repository contains the Public Edition — a deliberately scoped release of 3 foundational documents (Layer 0) that establish:
- the constitutional invariants
- the authorial rights layer
- the binding terminology
The remaining layers of the corpus introduce:
- interpretation rules and conflict resolution
- threat modeling and attack surfaces
- protocol and system constraints
- compliance and enforcement logic
- audit and verification procedures
- governance and amendment mechanisms
- implementation and integration mapping
These layers will be released progressively as the PAI Foundation develops.
This repository is not a research paper.
It is a normative constitutional specification (Layer 0 infrastructure).
A separate research paper (arXiv submission) is in preparation for submission to arXiv and will formally describe:
- the problem space
- the threat model
- the invariant architecture
- the system implications
PAI (Personal Authorial Intelligence) is a normative framework that ensures AI systems operate exclusively under the declared and verifiable authority of the human author they represent.
PAI defines the constitutional conditions required to preserve authorial sovereignty at the deployment layer of AI systems.
PAI-Kernel is the public normative layer of the PAI Constitutional Framework (PAI-CD) — a formal specification defining the constitutional principles, authorial rights, and governance invariants for Personal Authorial Intelligence systems.
The PAI Constitutional Framework (PAI-CD) is a structured corpus of normative documents establishing the governance model of PAI systems.
This repository contains the Public Edition — the Layer 0 release of the PAI-CD corpus.
PAI-CD is not a product. It is not a startup. It is a Layer 0 normative infrastructure — a constitutional substrate on which compliant implementations, governance bodies, and execution systems may be built.
Most AI governance discourse focuses on what AI systems should do.
PAI-CD focuses on something prior: who holds final authority, and what structural guarantees protect that authority from erosion — by providers, by optimization pressure, by infrastructure lock-in, or by cumulative drift.
The framework defines six non-derogable invariants:
| Invariant | What It Protects |
|---|---|
| Authorship Supremacy | Final human authority over all consequential decisions |
| Cognitive Sovereignty | Freedom from covert persuasion and behavioral shaping |
| Anti-Manipulation | Prohibition on undeclared optimization objectives |
| Provider Independence | Portability and governance reproducibility |
| Reversibility | Reconstructability of all structural changes |
| Drift Immutability | Protection against cumulative invariant erosion |
These invariants are non-derogable — they cannot be suspended by emergency, majority vote, economic pressure, security update, or provider policy.
PAI-CD operates at Layer 0 — below models, providers, and application logic.
This repository publishes three foundational documents:
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
PAI_Constitutional_Document.md |
The constitutional core. Establishes invariants, interpretation rules, and the non-derogation clause. |
PAI_Bill_of_Authorial_Rights.md |
Enumeration of enforceable Author rights derived from the Constitutional Core. |
Glossary.md |
Binding terminology authority for PAI-CD v2.2. |
The full corpus (10 documents) includes implementation mapping, threat modeling, compliance verification, and governance control layers. The complete framework will be made available through the PAI Foundation as it develops.
Ambiguity resolves toward stronger invariant protection, minimal authority expansion, and maximum portability.
This principle applies to all documents in this repository and to any compliant implementation.
| Item | Status |
|---|---|
| Constitutional Framework | v2.2 — Freeze Edition |
| Copyright Filing | Initiated 23 February 2026 |
| Domain | paikernel.org |
| Fiscal Host | Open Source Collective (pending) |
| Foundation | In formation |
This work is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
You are free to share and adapt this material for any purpose, provided you give appropriate attribution to PAI-Kernel and indicate if changes were made.
See LICENSE for full terms.
PAI-Kernel is in early formation. Community standards are published in this repository:
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md— grounded in PAI-CD anti-manipulation principlesCONTRIBUTING.md— amendment procedure as contribution pathwaySECURITY.md— responsible disclosure for specification vulnerabilities
At this stage, the most valuable contributions are:
- Careful reading and substantive critique of the normative layer
- Identification of ambiguities that require clarification via Amendment
- Academic or institutional engagement
Please open an Issue using the provided templates to begin a public discussion.
For institutional inquiries, academic collaboration, or governance discussion:
Open an Issue in this repository, reach out via paikernel.org, or email contact@paikernel.org.
PAI-Kernel is a public normative layer of PAI-CD. It is not affiliated with any AI provider.