About the framework
Ethotechnics: governance and care infrastructure for high-stakes systems
Ethotechnics is a framework for designing, evaluating, and governing high-stakes socio-technical systems with explicit accountability, burden management, and care-infrastructure commitments.
The framework is authored by Kanav Jain, and developed through standards writing, glossary curation, field diagnostics, and implementation-oriented research.
Institute and Studio
How the Institute and Studio fit together
Ethotechnics Institute is the public, open-access commons: standards, ontology, glossary, diagnostics, and field notes are free to use, cite, and extend.
Ethotechnics Studio provides clinical AI safety evaluations, VC diligence, and governance advisory through commissioned engagements. The Institute publishes the open framework; the Studio applies it to specific systems and organizations.
Foundations
Start with these core resources
- Glossary for core terms and definitions.
- Mechanisms catalog for decision logs, escalation patterns, and reversibility tools.
- Diagnostics for interactive self-serve tools.
- Standards for formal, versioned control definitions.
- Field notes for applied essays and observations.
- Quick start guides for role-specific entry paths.
Citing this work
How to cite Ethotechnics
Ethotechnics Institute materials are published under CC BY 4.0 . To cite the framework:
Jain, K. (2025). Ethotechnics: A governance and care-infrastructure framework for high-stakes systems. Ethotechnics Institute. https://ethotechnics.org
Individual glossary entries and patterns include their own citation metadata.