CharterofSapientCivilizations/Charter-of-Sapient-Civilizations: Charter of Sapient Civilizations v1.0.0 — Initial Public Release

Charter of Sapient Civilizations v1.0.0

This is the first public release of the Charter of Sapient Civilizations — a comparative knowledge repository of universal principles, cross-civilizational norms, and contextual clauses structured for scholars, AI governance, and digital rights research.

What's included

Layer 1 — Meta-Principles

• 11 foundational principles (P01–P11) covering dignity, justice, accountability, liberty, consent, proportionality, transparency, inclusion, sustainability, care, and privacy
• Full English and Chinese elaborations (principles/)

Layer 2 — Domain Norms

• 180+ clause cards across 15 thematic domains (domains/)
• Domains: administrative justice, criminal justice, contract & trade, culture, environment, family, labor, liberty, life & body, privacy, property, religion & ethics, technology & AI, war & peace, and cross-domain meta-norms

Layer 3 — Contextual Clauses

• 80+ civilization-specific normative clauses (contexts/)
• Civilizations covered: China (Pre-Qin through PRC), Western (Classical Antiquity through Contemporary), Islamic, Indian, African, Latin American, Oceanian, and others

Supporting materials

• Evaluation frameworks: Agent Levels (A0–A6) and Civilization Levels (S0–S6)
• Procedural frameworks: Digital Court and Evidence Rules
• Empirical knowledge base: life wisdom, unwritten rules, and folk traditions
• Datasets: structured exports of all clause cards (JSONL/JSON/CSV)
• JSON Schema definitions for clause cards and contextual clauses
• Validation and export scripts

Web portal

• Static HTML portal with multilingual support (EN / 中文 / ES / FR / AR)
• Available at: https://www.charterofsapientcivilizations.org

License

• Content: CC BY-SA 4.0
• Code & scripts: MIT
• Datasets: ODbL 1.0

First drafted: August 2025 | Published: March 2026 Founder: Hadrian Wynne