Core Axioms
The six core axioms that ground every Ethotechnics standard, mechanism, and validator — burden, bindingness, stoppability, contestability, care infrastructure, and temporal rights.
Status
Versioned doctrine
Axioms are immutable, cross-referenced in standards, and maintained alongside the glossary.
Axioms
The axioms of accountable systems
Use these as a doctrinal checklist when authoring or auditing standards.
Axiom 1 — Finitude: Human attention is finite and must be treated as a protected resource.
Axiom 2 — Consent: Legitimate systems secure informed consent at every critical handoff.
Axiom 3 — Stewardship: Operators accept full responsibility for the outcomes and latency of their automation.
Axiom 4 — Reversibility: High-impact actions require safe rollback paths and transparent appeal channels.
Axiom 5 — Legibility: Users must be able to see, understand, and audit the burden imposed on them.
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Ethotechnics Standards Working Group. (2025). Core Axioms. Ethotechnics Institute. https://ethotechnics.org/standards/core-axioms
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Ethotechnics Standards Working Group. "Core Axioms." Ethotechnics Institute, 2025, https://ethotechnics.org/standards/core-axioms.
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Ethotechnics Standards Working Group. "Core Axioms." Ethotechnics Institute. Jun 1, 2025. https://ethotechnics.org/standards/core-axioms.
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@misc{ethotechnics_standards_core_axioms,
title={Core Axioms},
author={Ethotechnics Standards Working Group},
year={2025},
howpublished={Ethotechnics Institute},
url={https://ethotechnics.org/standards/core-axioms},
version={v1.0.0}
}
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TY - WEB TI - Core Axioms AU - Ethotechnics Standards Working Group PY - 2025 UR - https://ethotechnics.org/standards/core-axioms ER -