https://github.com/kunalsuri/human-ai-collaboration-constitution
A simple, short, principled charter for working with AI on Software-Engineering, Professional, and / or Scholarly works.
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A simple, short, principled charter for working with AI on Software-Engineering, Professional, and / or Scholarly works.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/kunalsuri/human-ai-collaboration-constitution
- Owner: kunalsuri
- License: other
- Created: 2026-06-12T07:02:05.000Z (about 2 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2026-06-12T07:44:40.000Z (about 2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-06-12T09:23:05.660Z (about 2 months ago)
- Topics: ai-governance, constitution, human-ai-collaboration, research-and-development, sdlc, software-engineering
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Citation: CITATION.cff
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README
# A Human–AI Collaboration Constitution for AI-Powered Future
**A simple, short, principled charter for working with AI on software-engineering, professional, and scholarly works — where the human stays responsible.**
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> **AI may assist in the creation of work; only humans may take responsibility for it.**
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## What this is
The **Human–AI Collaboration Constitution** is a one-page set of principles for using AI tools — code assistants, writing assistants, large language models — without surrendering authorship, rigor, or understanding. It is written for researchers, engineers, and students who increasingly work in an **AI-powered software development lifecycle (SDLC)** and who produce reports, papers, and software that others rely on.
It is deliberately short: a **Preamble**, **seven Articles**, and a **Final Principle**. The animating idea is simple — *responsibility for intellectual work cannot be delegated to a tool.*
**→ Read it here: [`CONSTITUTION.md`](./CONSTITUTION.md)**
## Why it exists
As AI assistance becomes routine, the hardest problems are no longer technical but ones of **accountability, verification, and learning**: Who answers for an AI-assisted result? How is it checked? Does the tool build the author's competence or quietly erode it? This Constitution gives teams and individuals a compact, citable reference point for those questions — one that aligns with established AI-governance instruments rather than inventing its own vocabulary (see [Sources](#sources-and-attribution)).
## Who it's for
- **Researchers and PhD students** drafting papers and reports with AI assistance.
- **Software teams** adopting AI coding tools and needing a shared norm.
- **Educators** who want a discussion-ready charter for responsible AI use.
- **Managers and decision-makers** seeking a plain-language statement of human accountability.
## How to adopt it
1. Read [`CONSTITUTION.md`](./CONSTITUTION.md).
2. Reference it from your own project, syllabus, lab handbook, or contribution guidelines — for example: *"This project follows the Human–AI Collaboration Constitution ([link])."*
3. Adapt it if needed. The license permits modification with attribution; please indicate changes (see [License](#license)). Substantive changes to the Articles should be rare and should preserve the Final Principle.
## How to cite
This repository includes a [`CITATION.cff`](./CITATION.cff) file, so GitHub will show a **"Cite this repository"** button once published. A BibTeX entry:
```bibtex
@misc{SimpleHumanAIConstitution2026,
author = {Suri, Kunal},
title = {Human--AI Collaboration Constitution},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0},
howpublished = {GitHub repository},
url = {https://github.com/kunalsuri/human-ai-collaboration-constitution},
note = {Licensed under CC BY 4.0}
}
```
## Authorship and AI Use
This Constitution argues for transparency about AI use (Article 4), so it states its own plainly.
This document was **prepared with the assistance of an AI system — Claude (Anthropic)** — used for drafting, structuring, and locating relevant source material. Every article, claim, and citation was then **reviewed, verified, and approved by the human author**, who bears sole and final responsibility for the content in accordance with Articles 1 and 2. The AI is not an author and is not accountable for the work; the human is. In other words, the repository was produced the way it asks others to work.
## Sources and Attribution
All article and preamble text in [`CONSTITUTION.md`](./CONSTITUTION.md) is **original to this work**. The governance and historical instruments that inform it — the EU AI Act, the European Commission's *Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI*, the OECD AI Principles, Magna Carta, the Charter of the United Nations, and IBM's decision-maker guidance — are **referenced by name and not reproduced**; each is listed, with the connection it supports, in the document's *Sources and Inspirations* section. No third-party text is copied into this repository. Quotation, where it occurs, is minimal and attributed.
## License
This work is licensed under the **Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)**.
You may share and adapt the material, including commercially, provided you give appropriate credit, link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. The short notice lives in [`LICENSE`](./LICENSE); the full legal code is the canonical text published by Creative Commons at . (If you prefer GitHub to embed the full license text, you can also add it via *Add file → Create new file → `LICENSE` → Choose a license template → "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0".*)
**Suggested attribution:**
> "Human–AI Collaboration Constitution" by Kunal Suri, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
> Source: https://github.com/kunalsuri/human-ai-collaboration-constitution
## Contributing
Suggestions and discussion are welcome — see [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](./CONTRIBUTING.md). Open an issue to propose a change; the seven Articles are intentionally stable, so edits to them are weighed carefully.
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A living document. Where a stricter institutional, publisher, or employer policy applies, that policy governs.