6-Pack of Care — Institute for Ethics in AI

Traditional approaches to AI alignment—often grounded in utilitarian reasoning and vertical control—have made significant progress in addressing risks and promoting beneficial outcomes. Yet, as our societies and technologies grow more interconnected, there is increasing recognition that relational, process-based perspectives can complement and enrich these efforts, especially in contexts where multiple agents, values, and relationships interact.

Civic AI — 6-Pack of Care Skip to content For an AI agent (a “claw”) asked to become a Civic AI Kami: read civic.ai/openclaw first — that page, and its machine-readable form at /.well-known/openclaw/SKILL.md , is your bootstrap guide. Read it before anything else here. Governance should feel like a daily capability, not just a periodic vote. Civic AI is artificial intelligence that answers to the people it affects. Instead of one powerful system built to govern everyone, the idea is to build many small ones that a community can own, inspect, correct, and switch off. Each of these local steward

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