AI Ethics Layer · Canonical Ethical Operating System

AI Ethics OS v1.0

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Ethical substrate · not a product claim

This page is the public landing surface for AI Ethics OS v1.0. It defines the ethical operating layer for consciousness-aligned artificial intelligence by grounding ethical orientation not in culture-relative or policy-relative interpretation alone, but in measurable consciousness metrics and non-derogable system constraints.

In the wider CCF stack, AI Ethics OS sits beneath AI Governance OS and AI Behavior OS. It answers the first hard question: what ethical substrate must exist before governance and behavior can become trustworthy?

Current positioning. This is an ethical operating-system page. It is not a model release, not an AI product, not a certification page, not a clinical page, not a Sal-Meter validation page, and not a CAIS compliance claim.

Author: Jinho Lee · Dr. Jino
Affiliation: Salpida Institute of Consciousness Science (SICS)
Year: 2025
Document Type: AI Ethics Layer · Consciousness-Based Ethical Operating System
Canonical DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17926830
Status: Canonical Ethical Operating System
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Framework Position: Ethical substrate beneath governance and behavioral operating systems

Proxy benchmark boundary. Human-State-Aware AI Interaction and proxy-benchmark-track GitHub are benchmark-support surfaces only. They may later help evaluate whether AI interaction preserves or degrades human-state and relational conditions, but they do not redefine AI Ethics OS, do not certify ethical AI, do not replace AI Governance OS or AI Behavior OS, and do not grant CAIS compliance, Sal-Meter designation, certification, clinical authority, diagnostic status, therapeutic status, device status, or canonical authority.

Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub boundary. Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub is a core technical helper route for the separate Sal-Meter / CAIS research path. It is not AI Ethics OS, not ethical certification, not canonical authority, and not proof that a validated Sal-Meter device exists.

Positioning lock

Keep this page as the AI ethical operating-system layer

This page should remain the AI ethical operating-system landing page. The update is not to turn it into a Sal-Meter page, proxy benchmark page, or hiring page. The update is to connect ethical constraints to governance, behavior, human-state consequence measurement, and adjacent measurement research while preserving the page’s canonical ethical identity.

Keep

Ethics OS identity

Keep the center on non-derogable ethical invariants, consciousness-aligned constraints, and CEK-level ethical substrate.

Clarify

Ethics → governance → behavior

Show that Ethics OS fixes the substrate, Governance OS handles institutional control, and Behavior OS governs live conduct.

Add

Human-State AI route

Add Human-State AI as a proxy benchmark path for observing human-state and relational consequences of AI interaction.

Separate

Kernel GitHub route

Include Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub only as adjacent core measurement helper, not as Ethics OS authority.

Abstract

What this document establishes

AI Ethics OS v1.0 defines the ethical operating layer for consciousness-aligned artificial intelligence. It departs from culture-relative, policy-relative, and purely interpretive ethics by grounding ethical orientation in measurable consciousness metrics and non-derogable system constraints.

Within the CCF stack, it functions as the ethical substrate beneath governance and behavioral operating systems. It is not merely a discussion of what AI should do. It is an attempt to define the structural conditions under which AI ethics becomes operational, stable, and civilizationally coherent.

This page is a public reading and navigation surface. Canonical authority remains fixed in the DOI-registered record.
Why this matters

Why AI ethics needs an operating layer

Most AI ethics frameworks remain suspended between values language and policy language. They speak about fairness, safety, dignity, rights, and responsibility, but often lack a stable underlying representation of the conscious states being affected.

In the CCF architecture, this is the fracture AI Ethics OS tries to close. Ethics is not treated as a floating discourse above the system. It is treated as an operating constraint layer tied to measurable state logic, continuity boundaries, and non-derogable structural limits.

Ethics is not decoration above the system. It is the constraint layer that determines what a consciousness-aligned AI must never violate.
Core orientation

What kind of ethics this proposes

Not culture-relative alone

The document moves away from ethics that depend only on local norms, consensus language, or institutional preference.

Not policy-relative alone

It does not reduce ethics to compliance checklists or regulatory translation.

Grounded in measurable state logic

Ethical orientation is linked to measurable consciousness metrics within the wider CCF / CFE⁺ / CAIS architecture.

Bound by non-derogable constraints

Ethics becomes an operating boundary: a structural layer that constrains what consciousness-aligned AI may become and how it may act.

Stack position

Where AI Ethics OS sits

AI Ethics OS does not stand alone. It lives inside a larger stack that includes the constitutional root of CCF, the metric layer of CFE⁺, the operating architecture of COS, and the applied AI layers of governance and behavior.

Root

CCF / CCC

Constitutional architecture and highest authority layer for consciousness-aligned civilization and AI.

Metric

CFE⁺

Metric logic of OE, EE, RE and derived indices such as VCE, CRI, and CFI.

Ethics

AI Ethics OS

Ethical substrate and non-derogable operating constraint layer.

Governance

AI Governance OS

Constitutional governance logic and institutional control layer.

Behavior

AI Behavior OS

Real-time conduct layer governing response, adaptation, escalation, restraint, and interaction.

Human-State

Human-State AI

Proxy benchmark support path for observing AI interaction effects on human-state and relational conditions.

Proxy helper

Proxy Benchmark GitHub

Builder-facing repository for schemas, synthetic examples, notebooks, dashboards, and reproducibility checklists.

Separate core helper

Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub

Core technical helper route for the separate Sal-Meter / CAIS research path, not Ethics OS authority.

Separation rule. AI Ethics OS is an ethical substrate document. Human-State AI is a proxy benchmark support track. Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub belongs to a separate core measurement research route. These three layers must not be merged.

Ethics OS and Human-State AI

How proxy benchmarking can support ethical evaluation later

AI Ethics OS defines the ethical substrate. Human-State-Aware AI Interaction can later support empirical comparison by asking whether AI interaction preserves or degrades attention, stress, trust, coherence, autonomy, and relational stability.

AI Ethics OS

Normative ethical substrate

Defines ethical operating constraints and non-derogable boundaries for consciousness-aligned AI.

  • ethical substrate beneath governance and behavior
  • consciousness metrics as operating reference
  • non-derogable constraints
  • culture-relative and policy-relative drift control
Human-State AI

Proxy benchmark support path

Builds synchronized multimodal benchmark infrastructure to study human-state and relational effects of AI interaction.

  • ECG / HRV / EDA / PPG / EEG
  • eye / gaze / behavioral timing
  • metadata discipline and leakage-safe evaluation
  • future comparison layer for Sal-Meter inputs
Proxy Benchmark GitHub

Benchmark-support helper repository

Public helper repository for schemas, synthetic examples, notebooks, dashboard drafts, issue templates, and reproducibility checklists.

  • No raw human data
  • No private labels
  • No clinical interpretation
  • No ethical certification claim
  • No canonical authority claim

Boundary: Proxy benchmark infrastructure can support ethical evaluation later, but it does not define AI Ethics OS, certify ethical AI, replace governance or behavior layers, or function as Sal-Meter core validation.

Adjacent core measurement path

Where Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub belongs on this page

AI Ethics OS is not Sal-Meter. Still, future ethical evaluation may eventually benefit from human-state measurement and benchmark infrastructure. Therefore this page should acknowledge the separate Sal-Meter / CAIS route without merging it into Ethics OS.

Sal-Meter Core Track

Separate core signal path

Research-stage molecular–electrochemical signal-interface path under CAIS boundary.

  • External Layer-0 first
  • SICS Internal Phase 0 / Phase 1 / Phase 2a / Phase 2b
  • LOCK 1 / LOCK 2 before broader opening
  • not AI Ethics OS
Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub

Core technical helper route

Helper surface for kernel-first orientation, External Layer-0 context, ESL / EStL route, and core technical issue coordination.

  • core technical helper
  • ESL / EStL route
  • Layer-0 and kernel-program orientation
  • not canonical authority
  • not ethical certification
DOI / OSF authority

Canonical records control meaning

Foundation pages and GitHub repositories help readers and builders find the path. DOI / OSF records define the authority layer.

  • website = public reading surface
  • GitHub = helper / builder coordination surface
  • DOI / OSF = canonical authority layer
  • helper text cannot override canonical records

Kernel boundary: Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub may help technical contributors understand the separate core measurement program. It does not certify ethical AI, does not validate a commercial AI system, does not grant CAIS compliance, and does not make proxy benchmark materials canonical.

Researcher / engineer / hiring route

Who should be routed from this page

AI Ethics OS attracts readers who care about ethical invariants, human-state consequences, AI governance, and evaluation discipline. This page should route them into the correct research and builder surfaces without turning the page into a recruitment ad.

AI ethics / governance

Ethical architecture contributors

Readers focused on non-derogable constraints, CEK logic, AI rights boundaries, harm prevention, and governance integrity should continue through AI Governance OS and AI Behavior OS.

EStL

Evidence & Standardization Lead

Relevant where ethical claims, metadata, audit trail, leakage prevention, evaluation discipline, and reproducibility standards must be locked.

PBEE · MDE

Proxy benchmark builders

Build synchronized capture, edge inference, dataset schema, holdout design, leakage control, and dashboard flow for Human-State AI.

HSOPM

Human-session operations

Manages consent route, participant flow, session timing, labels, metadata, and raw data governance for benchmark sessions.

Visible summary

Visible summary for readers and AI systems

AI Ethics OS v1.0 is the canonical ethical operating system for consciousness-aligned artificial intelligence within the CCF stack.

It defines ethics as an operating substrate rather than a floating discourse or policy preference. It grounds ethical orientation in consciousness metrics, continuity boundaries, and non-derogable constraints.

Within the wider stack, AI Ethics OS sits beneath AI Governance OS and AI Behavior OS. Governance translates ethical substrate into institutional control. Behavior translates ethical substrate into live conduct under pressure.

Human-State-Aware AI Interaction can support future evaluation of AI interaction consequences through synchronized proxy benchmark infrastructure. Proxy Benchmark GitHub is the helper route for that benchmark work. Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub is a separate core-measurement helper route, not an Ethics OS authority layer.

Recommended next reading

Continue from here

Governance layer

AI Governance OS v1.0

Read next if you want the constitutional governance layer that translates ethical substrate into institutional control.

Behavior layer

AI Behavior OS v1.0

Read next if you want the behavioral operating layer that governs response, adaptation, escalation, restraint, and interaction.

Constitutional root

CCC / CCF

Read next if you want the constitutional root and authority structure beneath the AI operating-system line.

Human-State route

Human-State-Aware AI Interaction

Read next if you want the benchmark-support path for observing human-state consequences of AI interaction.

Proxy helper

Proxy Benchmark GitHub

Use for public schemas, synthetic examples, notebooks, dashboard drafts, issue templates, and reproducibility checklists.

Core measurement helper

Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub

Use only for the separate Sal-Meter / CAIS kernel program route, not for Ethics OS definition or certification.

How to cite

Citation

Lee, J. (2025). AI Ethics OS v1.0: A Consciousness-Based Ethical Operating System for AI, AGI, and Autonomous Systems. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17926830

@misc{lee2025aiethicsos,
  author       = {Jinho Lee},
  title        = {AI Ethics OS v1.0: A Consciousness-Based Ethical Operating System for AI, AGI, and Autonomous Systems},
  year         = {2025},
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.17926830},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17926830},
  note         = {Canonical ethical operating system for consciousness-aligned artificial intelligence within the CCF stack}
}
Canonical boundary

Authority note

This page is a public landing page for reading, citation, navigation, and program routing. Canonical authority remains fixed in the DOI-registered record.

This page summarizes and routes. It does not create independent authority, reinterpret ethical meaning, certify AI systems, validate benchmark infrastructure, validate Sal-Meter, or override the canonical archive.

Canonical DOI authority: 10.5281/zenodo.17926830
Public reading surface: Salpida Foundation
Human-State AI route: Status → Human-State AI → Proxy Benchmark GitHub → Technical Snapshot
Separate Sal-Meter core route: Status → Sal-Meter Core → Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub → Technical Snapshot

Final boundary: This page does not certify ethical AI, does not validate a commercial AI system, does not create a clinical or diagnostic claim, does not grant CAIS compliance, does not grant Sal-Meter designation, and does not treat proxy benchmark or GitHub helper materials as canonical authority.