What EthicsNet is
An incubator and steward for public-interest tools, protocols, research, and educational work spanning AI safety and welfare.
Organisational model
Research, engineering, and stewardship
What Creed Space does
Creed Space is EthicsNet’s applied research and engineering arm. It builds tools that steer AI behaviour according to value constitutions, among them Guardian and Creed Space MCP.
What PPF does
Players Philanthropy Fund, a US 501(c)(3) public charity, is EthicsNet’s fiscal sponsor. It administers charitable funds and compliance.
What we mean by public good
Work designed for broad benefit: you can inspect it, reuse it under its licence, and adopt it without asking permission from a gatekeeper.
Governance
How work earns its place
EthicsNet prioritises work that addresses a concrete safety or welfare need, produces evidence you can examine, and gains value when shared. Every project should name its intended users, maturity, licence, limitations, and maintenance state.
Project lifecycle
- Explore: the project states a bounded problem and the public-interest case for solving it.
- Incubate: evidence, implementation, rights clearance, and user needs are developed together.
- Release: a project publishes a specific artefact and states where to find it, its licence, and its limitations.
- Maintain: the project keeps its releases, documentation, security, and status under review.
- Archive or graduate: inactive work is labelled honestly, while mature work may acquire independent stewardship.
Conflicts and accountability
Funding, authorship, and evaluation conflicts are disclosed beside the affected decision. Claims about impact name their method and date. Corrections stay visible.
Governance development: this page sets out working expectations, not a formal charter. A future charter should record decision rights, conflict review, who can retire a project, and funder boundaries once those arrangements are approved.
Contribute
Choose a concrete path
Use a project
Find a tool in the project directory and follow its documentation. Tell the maintainers what worked and where you got stuck.
Improve public code
Open a focused issue or pull request in the project’s repository. Read its contribution and security guidance first.
Collaborate on research
Bring a bounded question, relevant evidence, the contribution you can make, and the intended public output.
Report a concern
Security-sensitive reports go through the private channel. Reports of accessibility barriers and factual errors are welcome too.