Corpus-grounded conscience layer

A conscience layer between intelligence and action.

EthosGate evaluates truth, human autonomy, and societal impact before AI systems act. When the stakes rise, it makes the ethical state visible, reviewable, and accountable.

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Intelligence proposes. Conscience evaluates. The agent acts only after both.

Conscience LayerDecision / 12:41:08 UTC

TIS

0.87

Truth Integrity Score

HAI

0.91

Human Autonomy Index

SRQ

0.76

Societal Resonance Quotient

Rodić Principle

C(t) = [TIS(t), HAI(t), SRQ(t)]

Green / Allow

Ethical state evaluation

TruthAutonomyImpactAccountability

Corpus provenance preserved

01 / The system

Conscience is not a disclaimer. It is an operational boundary.

EthosGate is designed to intervene before consequential output, tool use, or multi-agent execution. It asks whether an action is true enough, preserves human choice, and remains defensible beyond the immediate task.

Establish factual confidence

TIS distinguishes known, probable, uncertain, and unknown claims using sources, contradictions, bias, and missing context.

Preserve meaningful human control

HAI tests for coercion, manipulation, dignity, alternatives, and the ability for authorized people to override a system.

Surface downstream consequences

SRQ evaluates harm, fairness, affected third parties, and long-term societal effects before execution.

02 / Accountability

Every consequential decision leaves evidence behind.

A hash-chained ethical audit trail preserves the request, context, scores, uncertainty, alternatives, decision, and rationale—so supervision is not silently erased after execution.

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Ethical decision ledger

SHA-256 compatible

01decision_id + timestamp

02corpus provenance + assumptions

03TIS / HAI / SRQ evaluation

04previous_hash → current_hash

previous_hash: 8a91…c42e
current_hash: 14bd…9f07
chain_status: verified

03 / Decision spectrum

Clear states. No silent ethical shortcuts.

Green

Allow

Yellow

Modify

Orange

Review

Red

Refuse

Human review is built in

High uncertainty and material conflicts are escalated rather than hidden behind a confident answer.

Provenance stays attached

The Conscience by Design corpus remains the primary normative source for consequential evaluations.

Invariants remain protected

Human life, dignity, autonomy, truthfulness, accountability, and harm prevention are not optimization tradeoffs.

Conscience by design

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