The Safety Charter.
Six commitments that bind our leadership. These are not marketing claims. They are the rules a release has to pass before it leaves the building, and the reasons we will refuse certain kinds of work.
Six commitments. No exceptions.
Safety is a release blocker.
If a model or product fails a safety review, it does not ship. No commercial review, deadline, or external pressure can override that outcome. The Governance and Advisory Council can confirm or refuse a release on safety grounds alone.
A human approves consequential actions.
Any tool call from our products that touches a real system, such as writing to a file, executing a command, calling an external API, or modifying state, passes through a human approval gate. The same gate applies on every Dropstone tier.
Honest about capability and limits.
We describe what our systems can and cannot do in plain language. We do not present uncertain outputs as fact. Our products identify themselves as AI on request and do not imitate a specific human.
External oversight on what ships.
Release decisions for major models and products are reviewed by people outside the executive team. The Governance and Advisory Council reviews releases. The Research Integrity Council reviews publications.
Open methods, public results.
We publish methodology, evaluation scripts, and the numbers behind our claims. Where we cannot publish a result for safety reasons, we say so and explain why.
What we will not build.
We do not develop AI for weapons systems, mass surveillance of civilians, or operations that target democratic processes. We will refuse contracts that require it.
Living document. Public history.
This charter is reviewed twice a year and can be amended in between if new evidence or a new product makes a commitment incomplete. Amendments are public, with the reason and the date.
Removals require a written argument and a vote of the Governance and Advisory Council. We have never removed an article.
The charter is one of four documents.
Find a gap between this and what we ship?
Tell us. The charter is supposed to track the work, not decorate the website. If they have drifted apart, we want to know before anyone else does.