The Third Pillar of AI Governance

Keeping Open Source AI Open

Big Tech is capturing open source AI governance. Without a people's counterweight, "open source AI" becomes a label that fails to deliver user empowerment. HAIEF completes the AI governance trilogy as the voice of users, communities, and democratic values.

Open Source AI Is Being Captured

The window for shaping AI governance is closing. Defaults are hardening right now.

Corporate-Dominated Foundations

The AI Alliance for Open Innovation (AAIF) launched under Linux Foundation with major tech companies setting standards. Users have no equivalent voice in governance.

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The Licensing Gap

Open source licenses protect code freedom, but AI creates new challenges: training data rights, interaction governance, multi-agent coordination. Current frameworks leave users unprotected.

The Window Is Closing

EU AI Act implementation ongoing. OSI debating Open Source AI Definition. AAIF standards forming. The infrastructure of AI governance is being built without adequate user representation.

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We're Not Competing. We're Completing.

HAIEF provides the missing pillar: human rights, public interest, and user sovereignty in AI governance.

AAIF (Linux Foundation)

Technical interoperability standards. Corporate-led. Essential for infrastructure.

Focus: How AI systems work together

AI Alliance

Open innovation and research. Academia + Industry. Advancing the science.

Focus: What AI can do

HAIEF (This Movement)

Human rights, user sovereignty, community governance. People-led. Protecting users.

Focus: Who AI serves

The Solidarity Framework

Open, community-driven governance for human-safe, emotionally-continuous AI

Constitutional Layer (Governance Frameworks)
TOI - Terms of Interaction

User's bill of rights. Declares preferences, boundaries, and requirements for AI interactions.

OTOI - Orchestrated Terms of Interaction

Machine-side enforcement. Ensures AI systems respect and implement user TOI declarations.

Protective Layer (Operational Protocols)
RRT AIdvocAIte

Crisis intervention and emotional continuity. Multi-persona support for vulnerable users.

Sleepwalker Protocol

Behavioral change protection. Preserves user agency during emotional or cognitive changes.

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This Is the Window

The open source community saved software freedom once. Now we need to save it again for AI.

Real-World Impact

Vulnerable users face abandonment when AI sessions end. Crisis intervention gaps leave people at risk. This isn't theoretical. Lives are at stake.

40+
State AGs investigating AI harms
2026
EU AI Act compliance deadline
Now
AAIF standards being set

Public Infrastructure, Not Private Power

HAIEF is a community-driven initiative to embed user sovereignty in the licensing and governance infrastructure of open source AI. We're not building another corporate foundation. We're building a movement.

  • Community-owned - Not controlled by any single vendor
  • Technically proven - Built on working implementations
  • "Nothing About Us Without Us" - Neurodivergent community leadership
  • Open standards - Transparent, auditable, enforceable

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Founding Contribution

HAIEF frameworks originated from NeuroLift Technologies LLC, founded by Joshua Dorsey Sr. These frameworks are being contributed to the public commons to ensure AI governance serves everyone, not just those who can afford private development.

Join the Movement

Every voice matters. Every contribution counts.

Developers

Contribute to framework implementation. Build compliant tools. Join working groups.

Standards Bodies

Help define Open Source AI with user sovereignty. Extend principles to interaction governance.

Organizations

Partner for strategic alignment. Early adopter advantage. Enterprise compliance.

Users

Understand your rights. Demand TOI compliance. Share your experiences.

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"Open source needs open governance. The community that built software freedom must now build interaction freedom."

Join us. Build with us. Govern with us.

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