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 for constitutional alignment infrastructure.
What PPF does
Players Philanthropy Fund serves as fiscal sponsor, administering charitable funds and compliance under its public-charity structure.
What “public good” means here
Work is designed for broad benefit, inspectability, reuse where its stated licence permits, and adoption without proprietary capture.
Governance
How work earns stewardship
EthicsNet prioritises work that addresses a concrete safety or welfare need, can produce inspectable evidence, and gains value when shared. Projects should name their intended users, maturity, licence, limitations, maintenance state, and route for scrutiny.
Project lifecycle
- Explore: a bounded problem and public-interest case are articulated.
- Incubate: evidence, implementation, rights, and user needs are developed together.
- Release: a project publishes a specific artefact, destination, licence, and limitations.
- Maintain: releases, documentation, security, and status are reviewed.
- Archive or graduate: inactive work is labelled honestly, while mature work may acquire independent stewardship.
Conflicts and accountability
Material funding, authorship, evaluation, and organisational conflicts should be disclosed beside the affected decision. Claims about impact should identify their method and date. Corrections should remain visible enough to preserve accountability.
Governance development: this public framework establishes expectations. A future formal charter should record decision rights, conflict review, project retirement authority, and funder boundaries after those arrangements are approved.
Contribute
Choose a concrete path
Use a project
Start with the verified directory and the project's own documentation. Report adoption evidence and friction to the relevant maintainer.
Improve public code
Open a focused issue or pull request in the named 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
Use the private route for security-sensitive reports. Accessibility and factual corrections are also welcome.