This document highlights the strategy we’ve developed over the year, shaped by input from various individuals both inside and outside our organization. While the future of AI and robotics remains unpredictable, this Charter will serve as our guide in ensuring that human well-being stays at the forefront of their development.

Our mission is to ensure that advances in AI and robotics—especially highly autonomous technologies—contribute to the improvement of human well-being. We aim to create safe, beneficial AI and robotic systems ourselves but will also consider our mission accomplished if our work helps others achieve similar outcomes. To fulfill this mission, we commit to the following guiding principles:Our mission is to ensure that advances in AI and robotics—especially highly autonomous technologies—contribute to the improvement of human well-being. We aim to create safe, beneficial AI and robotic systems ourselves but will also consider our mission accomplished if our work helps others achieve similar outcomes. To fulfill this mission, we commit to the following guiding principles: predictable, this Charter will serve as our guide in ensuring that human well-being stays at the forefront of their development.

We are committed to using any influence we gain from AI and robotics to ensure their benefits reach everyone and to avoid enabling uses that could harm humanity or create undue concentrations of power.

Our core responsibility is to humanity. Although substantial resources will be required to achieve our mission, we will work to prevent conflicts of interest among employees and stakeholders that could compromise our commitment to broad benefit.

We are committed to performing the research necessary to make AI and robotic systems safe and to driving widespread adoption of these safety practices within the fields of AI and robotics.

We are particularly concerned about the later stages of AI and robotics development turning into a competitive race that lacks proper safety measures. In such cases, if another value-aligned project close to success demonstrates a strong focus on safety, we will pause our own competition and provide assistance. Specific agreements will vary, but a common condition might be a high probability of success within the next two years.

To effectively address the societal impact of AI and robotics, we must remain leaders in technological advancements—focusing solely on policy and safety without active technical involvement would be insufficient.

We believe AI and robotics will have a significant societal impact even before reaching their most advanced stages, and we are committed to leading in areas directly aligned with our mission and expertise.

We actively seek to collaborate with other research and policy organizations, striving to build a global community working together to address the challenges posed by AI and robotics.

Our goal is to provide public goods that help society navigate the rapidly changing landscape of AI and robotics. While we currently publish most of our research, we expect that future safety and security concerns may reduce this, increasing the importance of sharing safety, policy, and standards research instead.