Constitutional Intelligence Governance Standard

CIGS

ETHRAEON's constitutional framework for governing autonomous intelligence: constitutionally constrained, evidentially auditable, human-sovereign, and jurisdictionally portable.

Living reference. Formal jurisdictional assessments are in progress. Published as a reference framework, not a ratified standard.

No government acceptance claimed. No regulatory approval claimed. CIGS is an internal constitutional standard that ETHRAEON applies to its own systems and offers as a reference framework for governments, counterparties, and counsel seeking to understand ETHRAEON's governance posture.

1. What CIGS is

The Constitutional Intelligence Governance Standard is ETHRAEON's framework for governing AI systems in a manner that is:

Constitutionally constrained - bound by the governing constitution and the Non-Adversarial Mandate.
Evidentially auditable - every governance act is recorded on an append-only, cryptographically anchored evidence chain.
Human-sovereign - the principal (S. Jason Prohaska, CEO) and designated human reviewers hold irreducible authority over defined categories of decisions.
Jurisdictionally portable - designed to map to emerging AI governance requirements across the United States, European Union, Switzerland, and other relevant jurisdictions.

CIGS is not a regulatory standard approved by any government body. It is a constitutional standard ETHRAEON applies to its own systems, offered as a reference for those seeking to understand how ETHRAEON governs the intelligence it builds.

2. The five pillars

Pillar 1 - Constitutional constraints

All ETHRAEON AI systems operate under constitutional constraints that cannot be overridden by runtime instruction. The constraints are anchored to the chain and enforced fail-closed before any action executes.

Pillar 2 - Evidence chain integrity

Every governance action, deployment decision, and compliance check is recorded in an append-only evidence chain, cryptographically anchored and independently readable. Chain health is monitored continuously.

Pillar 3 - Human sovereignty

Defined categories of decisions require irreducible human action by the principal or a designated human reviewer. AI systems may not self-authorize actions in these categories. Humanity before the machine.

Pillar 4 - Proactive compliance monitoring

ETHRAEON operates continuous compliance monitoring across all deployed surfaces. Stale claims, forbidden phrasing, and evidence gaps are flagged automatically and resolved before public distribution.

Pillar 5 - Transparency to counsel and counterparties

CIGS documentation is available for review by qualified legal counsel, enterprise partners, and accredited investors under the appropriate confidentiality terms. Detailed governance architecture is disclosed only under principal authorization.

The five pillars of CIGS, the Constitutional Intelligence Governance Standard: constitutional constraints, evidence-chain integrity, human sovereignty, proactive compliance monitoring, and transparency to counsel and counterparties.

3. Multi-jurisdictional mapping

CIGS is designed to map to the following frameworks. ETHRAEON does not claim certification under any of them; each row states the completed design-mapping posture.

Framework	Jurisdiction	Mapping status
EU AI Act (2024)	European Union	Design-compatible with EU AI Act GPAI obligations; assessment framework: see legal framework
NIST AI RMF 1.0	United States	Design-aligned to the NIST AI RMF 1.0 core functions (Govern, Map, Measure, Manage); no certification claimed
Swiss AI Strategy 2024	Switzerland	Design-consistent with the Swiss AI Strategy 2024 principles; no certification claimed
OECD AI Principles	International	Design-consistent; no certification claimed
UK AI Safety Framework	United Kingdom	Design-consistent with the UK AI regulatory principles; no certification claimed

4. Regulatory response framework

When ETHRAEON receives a regulatory inquiry, government request, or compliance demand, the following sequence applies:

Log the inquiry to the evidence chain immediately.
Route to qualified legal counsel in the relevant jurisdiction.
The principal reviews and authorizes any substantive response.
No disclosure of sealed intellectual property, evidence-chain contents, or constitutional runtime architecture without legal review and principal authorization.
Any compelled disclosure order is challenged through all available legal channels before compliance.
The response and its outcome are recorded on the evidence chain.

CIGS is a constitutional standard ETHRAEON applies to its own systems. It does not constitute legal compliance with any regulation, nor does it create any right or expectation in any regulator, counterparty, or end user. Qualified legal counsel is engaged for all jurisdictional compliance assessments.