The AEGIS Constitution

The AEGIS Constitution is the foundational governance charter for the AEGIS ecosystem. It defines the immutable principles, articles, and enforcement requirements that all AEGIS-governed AI systems must uphold.

The Constitution is versioned using calendar versioning (CalVer), citeable by article and section, and openly licensed for adoption and reference.

Read the Constitution

The full text of the AEGIS Constitution is published and maintained at:
aegis-constitution.com

The Constitution includes eleven articles covering bounded capability, authority binding, deterministic enforcement, human oversight, information sovereignty, governance transparency, auditability, collective defense, deny-by-default operation, constitutional supremacy, and escalation discipline.

Version History

Full release history is available on the constitution site.

NIST Submission

The AEGIS Constitution was submitted to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as an independent position paper on AI governance frameworks. This submission was made as part of AEGIS's ongoing engagement with federal standards bodies on AI safety and security.

Details of public comments and formal submissions are tracked in the Policy & Research section.

Source

The Constitution source is maintained in the aegis-constitution repository on GitHub.