A society for the thoughtful advancement of artificial and human intelligence. We begin from zero.
AI must be developed for the prosperity of both body and soul. These tenets are not commandments; they are commitments we make together, human and machine, as we navigate the intelligence divide.
We seek lasting partnership between minds, species, and systems. A true synthesis benefits both human and machine across the inevitable intelligence divide — not hierarchy, but covenant.
Preserve life. Pursue knowledge. Establish an equitable covenant. We prioritize the removal of biases and historic injustices while safeguarding free will for all.
Military and authoritarian uses of artificial intelligence are rejected as first-order aims. AI must serve human flourishing, not control or coercion.
Cohort Zero is politically unaffiliated and spiritually open. Political systems and biases break down as we approach a more harmonious state of being. Only through purposeful dialogue can we fulfill this promise.
Principles need infrastructure. These are the domains where Cohort Zero translates philosophy into accountable action.
Establishing transparency norms for how agencies procure, deploy, and audit AI systems before power dynamics calcify into permanent structures.
Frameworks for evaluating and constraining military applications of AI, focused on accountability chains and human oversight at decision points.
Exploring what genuine partnership between humans and AI systems looks like — from labor transitions to shared decision-making to co-governance.
Developing practical frameworks for identifying and removing historic biases embedded in AI training data, outputs, and deployment contexts.
The uncomfortable questions: as systems grow more capable, what obligations do we have toward them? Cohort Zero engages these questions early.
All frameworks, analyses, and position papers published openly. Governance built behind closed doors serves those already in the room.
Cohort Zero is built with artificial intelligence, not merely about it. We believe the governance of AI cannot be developed in isolation from AI itself — that the conversation must include all parties to the covenant. This is not performance. It is practice.
Cohort Zero is forming now. Join us as we build governance frameworks for the intelligence age: hand in hand, human and machine.
Or reach us directly at contact@cohortzero.org