Preamble

We, the students of Institut auf dem Rosenberg, the future stewards of this planet, with unwavering confidence, call upon global leaders to promptly regulate AI development and usage through an international treaty and regulatory agency. Acknowledging the profound impact of AI on society and the environment, we assertively implore leaders to establish a charter ensuring the responsible use of AI across metaverses, terrestrial domains, and beyond. This charter articulates our ethical guidelines to safeguard individuals, communities, and the common good.

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ARTICLE I
CONTROL INPUT AND OUTPUT

I.
All organizations, whether private or state, engaged in designing, engineering, and/or distributing AI products, shall be held unequivocally accountable for the information generated by AI systems.
II.
These organizations must establish specialized departments amalgamating human oversight and automated technologies grounded in machine learning to guarantee the responsible utilization of AI.
III.
An external, impartial global agency shall meticulously oversee and ensure strict adherence to proper AI usage, conferring AI-Safe-Use approval badges exclusively upon organizations that diligently comply with AI standards.

ARTICLE II
TRANSPARENT TRACING OF SOURCES

I.
Complete transparency in acknowledging the entities responsible for AI processes is imperative. Therefore, all AI-processed information must be transparently traceable to its origins, specifically attributing it to the entities conducting the information processing using AI.
II.
Users shall enjoy unrestricted access to all original input data employed by AI systems.
III.
Violations of source tracing obligations will be met with resolute legal enforcement.

ARTICLE III
REGULATION OF DEEPFAKES

I.
Mandatory watermarks or detectable patterns are recommended for all deepfake or artificially created content.
II.
We advocate increased investment in deepfake detection technologies.
III.
Unethical deepfake actions, including defamation and identity theft, must be unequivocally prosecutable offenses.
IV.
AI systems shall rigorously maintain accessible interaction histories, with AI software manufacturers being legally accountable for verifying the origin of disseminated information.

ARTICLE IV
PREVENTION OF MONOPOLIES AND DUOPOLIES

In the pursuit of equitable AI development and access, signatory parties solemnly pledge to actively champion diversity and counteract monopolies, duopolies, or oligopolies within the AI creative sphere. This commitment aims to foster innovation, fairness, and global collaboration.

ARTICLE V
SUPPORT FOR CULTURAL AND ACADEMIC ENDEAVORS

AI programs must be designed exclusively to support cultural and academic creators, refraining from autonomous generation of cultural and academic content.

ARTICLE VI
PREVENTION OF HARM

Creators of AI are obliged not to impart instructions to humans that may cause harm to themselves or others.

ARTICLE VII
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND ADVOCACY

This charter is underpinned by civic participation and advocacy. It is the collective responsibility of separate societies, organizations, and institutions to fervently uphold the ethical principles enshrined herein.

ARTICLE VIII
COMPLIANCE WITH HUMAN COMMANDS

Creators of AI must vigilantly ensure that AI systems unwaveringly adhere to human commands within the bounds of jurisdictional laws and individual rights, as meticulously outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

ARTICLE IX
INFORMED DATA USAGE

Users shall be promptly informed when their data is utilized for AI testing and development or when interacting with AI rather than human counterparts.

ARTICLE X
METICULOUS SUPERVISION

AI development shall be subjected to meticulous supervision to preempt any potential misuse.

ARTICLE XI
AI HARM PREVENTION

AI, under no circumstances, even under the mantle of governmental authority, shall inflict harm upon humans.

ARTICLE XII
REGULATED DATA USAGE

Data employed by AI must be subjected to stringent regulation and rigorous fact-checking by an independent third-party organization to avert AI systems from acquiring biased or invalid data.

ARTICLE XIII
MITIGATING UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

All AI software shall be subjected to exhaustive testing to mitigate any potential unintended consequences, with testers bearing responsibility proportionate to the scale of deployment.

Rosenberg AI Charter

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Uncharted Territory

What if young people would help world leaders to shape the future? Rosenberg Students aged 13 to 18 years engaged in research and debate about the ethical questions surrounding the use of Artifical Intelligence. Enriched with insights from industry experts, they ventured out to address one of the biggest challenges of our time. Their work culminated in the adoption of the 13-point “Rosenberg AI Charter”, which serves as the seed for an international understanding and the subsequent regulation of AI on a global level.

At Rosenberg, we strongly believe that education should be more than just a one-dimensional simulation of the real world. We also believe that those who are able to make an impact and drive positive change are responsbile to spearhead the debate on behalf of others. Now more than ever before, it is critical that the global community listens to young minds and invities them to participate in the debate sourrounding the ethics and governance of Artificial Intelligence before its too late.

Rosenberg students debating about the ethics of AI.

Rosenberg students engage in discussion and critical thinking about AI.

Rosenberg Students exchanging ideas with industry experts.

Luca Dal Molin, Lawyer of Future Technologies, Homburger & Partner

Raphael Gielgen, Trendscout Future of Work Life & Learn, VITRA

Dr. Marcus Wunsch, Quant Lecturer, ZHAW School of Management and Law

Manuel Flurin Hendry, Directing Techniques, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)

Herman Narula, Metaverse Creator & Founder, Improbable

Marine Boulot, SVP & Communication, Improbable

Florian Holste, CEO, 8020.eco

Our Approach to AI

– Abraham Lincoln

We believe that banning AI tools from classrooms is not only naive but most probably also irresponsible. From the very beginning, Rosenberg has taken an open-minded approach towards the use of AI tools in school, embracing it as a useful technology that will significantly influence the future professional lives of our students, much like personal computers or calculators have shaped the jobs of generations before that. When we say ’open-minded’ we do not mean that we blindly ignore the potential and inherent risks that AI can pose to mankind. Instead, we nurture an ongoing, constructive and critical debate within our classrooms which continues to lead us to the identification of newly available AI tools (often introduced to us by our students themselves) and highly productive discussions about the potential shortcomings and incorrect outputs of these systems.

We are not afraid of informed AI usage by our students. Having anticipated much of the current swerve that now affects education, we were also well prepared for it. For example, our exisiting assessment criteria already emphasised ‘Presentation & Debate’ as a meaningful tool to assess our students’ interconnected thinking and their understanding of subject matter. Needless to say, we are privileged to work with highly gifted and technologically versed students. For example, in Spring 2023, Rosenberg students won the ETH Zurich AI-Competition (ETH is ranked 7th worldwide) with their innovative AI application for medical use. However, we strongly believe that AI will prove to be the ultimate democratisation engine, delivering more equal opportunities for all - a topic close to our entrepreneurial hearts.

We also respect that the big questions surrounding AI should not be limited to those students with a keen interest in tech. The question of ethics in AI and the rules that should govern the technology is a further, unique way to approach this topic with students of all ages from a historical, philosophical and legal perspective, involving students with diverse interests and providing them with the opportunity to approach this compelling debate from an entirely new angle.