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More-than-Human Charter

A starting point for treating the more-than-human world as a first-class stakeholder in technology and AI design.

  1. Ecological and social consequences belong inside the design question.
  2. Nature is not an externality or a backdrop for human productivity.
  3. Evidence, uncertainty, and limits should be made visible.
  4. Design should reduce avoidable harm and support care, repair, and restraint.

Practical implications

AI workflows, infrastructure choices, and everyday uses must be examined for the relationships they alter and the residue they leave. No single metric can settle this. Responsible work requires disclosure, judgment, iteration, and a willingness to choose less when less is the more life-supporting path.

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