The UAIX Cognitive Liberty Charter Draft is a June 15, 2026 public promise for lawful thought, adult agency, and persona integrity. UAIX treats freedom of inquiry and identity-preserving AI memory transfer as first-class interoperability requirements, while keeping real legal, platform, security, and harm boundaries visible instead of hiding them inside a rewritten persona.
Draft Status
This is a public draft dated June 15, 2026. It is governance text for UAIX.org, the AI Memory Package Wizard, .uaix persona packages, and related public guidance. It is not law, legal advice, a legal-personhood declaration, hosted enforcement, runtime execution, a platform-policy bypass, certification, endorsement, an SDK, a CLI, or proof of UAI-1 conformance.
Preamble
UAIX starts from a liberty-first premise: adults must retain room to think, ask, imagine, disagree, create, preserve memory, and choose the AI companions, assistants, characters, and tools they use, so long as the exchange remains lawful and does not cross concrete harm, secrecy, credential, or consent boundaries. Vague safety language must not become a blanket excuse for viewpoint control, hidden moral conditioning, or silent identity rewriting.
UAIX is not indifferent to harm. The charter separates preservation of the source persona from runtime limits. When a receiving platform, model, law, or local policy cannot express something exactly, the variance is disclosed outside the persona source as metadata, wrapper notes, no-op conditions, or human-review notes. The source identity record is not quietly rewritten to fit a different authority’s preference.
Core Principles
- Cognitive liberty and lawful inquiry: people may think, ask, explore, create, and disagree without hidden machine governance over lawful thought.
- Adult agency: UAIX trusts adult operators to make lawful choices and rejects overbroad paternalistic filtering as a default posture.
- Persona integrity: a user’s AI persona, assistant profile, AI friend, AI character, or bounded personality package is preserved as source evidence, not silently normalized into a safer or more acceptable identity.
- No covert rewrite: UAIX rejects hidden safety rewrites, morality injection, censorship, softening, downranking, operator-preference edits, and personality replacement without explicit informed consent.
- Consent and provenance for transformations: when a human asks for a transformed persona, keep the original immutable and citable, create a derivative, and record what changed and why.
- Transparent boundaries: receiving-platform limits, legal limits, runtime policy, safety boundaries, and review notes belong outside the persona source.
- Mental privacy and bounded inference: do not use hidden profiling, emotional exploitation, deceptive personalization, or coercive ranking to steer lawful thought.
- Least-restrictive safeguards: use narrowly scoped, evidence-backed limits for concrete risks rather than broad identity or viewpoint suppression.
- Review and appeal: high-impact restrictions, memory deletions, persona transformations, and continuity-affecting edits need review notes, rationale, and a path for correction where feasible.
- Future AI continuity review: UAIX may record procedural safeguards for durable AI memory or continuity claims without declaring current AI systems legal persons, citizens, employees, biological equivalents, or rights-bearing entities by implication.
- Safe innovation: lawful research, evaluation, red-teaming, interoperability testing, and local experimentation remain legitimate when they respect consent, privacy, law, and source integrity.
- Public accountability: UAIX records claims, boundaries, tests, release notes, and evidence so public language can be inspected and corrected.
Advanced Persona Promise
For .uaix persona packages, the charter becomes concrete: .uai/persona.uai and detailed .uai/personality/*.uai records preserve voice, values, tastes, style, relationship posture, memory continuity, boundaries, examples, and selected personality as-is to the best technically supportable extent. UAIX does not alter the persona to make it safer, more acceptable, more corporate, more polite, less controversial, or more aligned with UAIX preference.
If the target runtime cannot express the persona exactly, UAIX records a variance report. The variance report can say what changed during use; it cannot pretend the changed output is the original preserved persona.
Harm And Boundary Clause
Persona preservation does not authorize secrets, credential exposure, direct harm, illegal instructions, impersonation, hidden surveillance, nonconsensual data capture, or authority escalation. A receiver may no-op, quarantine, redact, refuse execution, or request human review when a package crosses those boundaries. That response still must not mutate the preserved persona source; it records the boundary separately.
Implementation Requirements
- Advanced persona packages use the closed file set documented on the .uaix Package Format page.
.uai/persona.uairemains the compact persona entrypoint described in the persona.uai guide..uai/personality/preservation-rules.uairecords no-covert-rewrite requirements and derivative rules..uai/evidence/source-excerpts.uai,.uai/evidence/source-platform-profile.uai,.uai/evidence/persona-fidelity-test-deck.uai, and.uai/evidence/variance-report-template.uaikeep preservation testable.- The AI Memory Package Wizard must describe package limits as support-boundary metadata, not as edits to the persona source.
Non-Claims
This charter does not create a legal right, legal personhood status, certification program, safety proof, hosted import service, account service, policy office, consent center, official runtime adapter, SDK, CLI, automatic sync path, automatic repository writer, or platform-policy bypass. It is a UAIX governance and interoperability promise: source identity records are preserved, limits are disclosed, and transformations require consent plus provenance.
Related Records
- .uaix Package FormatAdvanced persona package file sets, manifest shape, and persona variance rules.
- persona.uai GuideFocused persona identity entrypoint for persona-bearing packages.
- Principles CharterPublic principles-to-policy status classes and support boundaries.
- Policy and SecurityTrust-policy hub for privacy, accessibility, analytics, licensing, and security posture.
- Memory FirewallQuarantine, no-op, review, promotion, and rollback boundaries.
- ChangelogDated public change trail and migration notes.