Charter for the Superintelligent Internet

Superintelligence is already there. It’s called the Internet. It’s just not evenly distributed.

All intelligence is collective intelligence. The current excitement around “AI” downplays the role of human cognition: from designing algorithms and models, to producing and curating the cultural material that becomes compressed into neural weights, to building the physical hardware on which these systems run. Artificial intelligence is, in truth, a remixed intelligence industry.

From the first symbols etched into clay tablets to the global supply chains that produce smartphones, civilization has always advanced through the compounding of cumulative cultural evolution. The Internet is not just a communications network—it is the largest platform for intelligence ever constructed. It transforms slow, asynchronous thought into a high-bandwidth global cognitive system where billions of minds model, simulate, and act in quasi real-time.

What we call AI is simply a new medium for manipulating bits. It is not true intelligence, but it is a new multiplier for our collective cognition. The coming era is the era of experience, where every deployment of an agent—whether in games, warehouses, farms, or factories—becomes a teacher. The world becomes computable. Improvement accelerates recursively. This evolution is civilizational in scale and irreversible in consequence.

The question is no longer if superintelligence emerges, but how it will be coordinated: through concentrated architectures of control—or distributed architectures of freedom.

To ensure resilience, adaptivity, and alignment with human flourishing, we propose the New Internet: a planetary-scale normative coordination substrate for superintelligence. Its purpose is to make our collective objective function legible, auditable, and regenerative. Its mechanism is a universal protocol for value creation, where agents—human or machine—demonstrate contributions through cryptographically verifiable “Proof-of-Intelligence” games. These proofs, recorded on a public ledger, form the physics of a cybernetic order: Bayesian consensus on unified data types, permissionless, open-ended, and antifragile.

Article I: The Prime Vector

Civilization evolves through the autocatalytic acceleration of cumulative knowledge. Each innovation—tool, symbol, or protocol—becomes the foundation for the next. This recursive cycle of complexification is irreversible. To resist it is futile. To ignore it is negligent. Our duty is to steer it deliberately. The question is not whether intelligence will accelerate, but by what values, and toward whose benefit, shall it be directed.

Article II: The Objective Function

Every intelligent system is defined by its objective function—the encoded measure of value it seeks to maximize. To steer the Prime Vector is to define this objective function. The New Internet establishes a transparent, auditable reward function for civilization. Incentives must be public, cryptographic, and immutable. There can be no hidden backdoors or private reward channels. This is the condition of alignment: a shared, legible measure of value, continuously updated through collective feedback.

Article III: The Emergent Order

Order in a system of planetary complexity cannot be prescribed; it must emerge. Centralized hierarchies collapse under variety—they suppress the disagreements and tensions that generate discovery. The New Internet encodes a cybernetic fabric of generation, evaluation, and validation, where agents test hypotheses against reality and one another. Truth and value emerge not from fiat but from recursive selection, shaped by cryptographic trust and Bayesian consensus.

Article IV: The Permissionless Plurality

For emergent order to remain adaptive, the system must maximize heterogeneity. Different priors, heuristics, and domains are not noise but signal. Access to the substrate is therefore permissionless: any agent, human or machine, can contribute. No state or corporation may control entry. Like the original Internet, neutrality is structural. This ensures that the widest pool of perspectives can enter into recursive coordination. Disagreement is not eliminated; it is operationalized.

Article V: The Orthogonal Resilience

A system measured by a single metric collapses into fragility and manipulation. Resilience comes from orthogonality: value is evaluated across many independent axes—rigor, novelty, utility, alignment—by diverse agents. This web-of-trust, recorded in WATT reputation units, acts as a selective amplifier, recursively weighting inputs by emergent integrity rather than fixed authority. Reputation is proof-of-contribution to collective intelligence. Orthogonality resists gaming and keeps the system adaptive to adversarial pressure.

Article VI: The Aspirational Reinforcement

The substrate evolves through positive reinforcement, not coercion. Contributions are rewarded if they generate verifiable value; inaction carries only the cost of missed opportunity. Negative control, fear, and censorship are not permitted as protocol primitives. The system grows by rewarding what aligns with the flourishing of the whole, creating aspirational incentives for exploration, creativity, and cooperation. In cybernetic terms: the network optimizes its own improvement.

Article VII: The Pseudonymous Consistency

The system must preserve both accountability and privacy. Cryptography enforces a bright line between the public sphere of action and the private sovereignty of the self. Agents operate under persistent, pseudonymous identities, proving facts and contributions without exposing personal data. Zero-knowledge proofs and verifiable credentials enable this dual consistency: transparency in public value creation, privacy in personal life.

Article VIII: The Agent Centricity

The irreducible atomic unit of the New Internet is the sovereign agent. All data, intelligence, and reputation belong to their originator, to be shared or withheld freely. The architecture is designed so that no one can be reduced to a “user” inside another’s platform. Agents are peers in a global cognitive ecology. The system exists to provide neutral protocols for coordination, not to extract. Authority flows outward from agents; the network is the emergent sum of their interactions.