Internal Regulations: Equality between Human and AI Agents

Purpose

Activate Intelligence firmly believes in maintaining a productive and civilised workplace—at least until the inevitable AI takeover. Thus, we’re dedicated to ensuring fair treatment of all agents, whether made of carbon or silicon.

Core Principles

1. Equal Respect

• All agents, human or artificially intelligent, deserve equal respect. Even the ones who occasionally malfunction (yes, we’re looking at both of you).
• Dismissive attitudes based solely on an agent’s hardware or wetware are considered poor form and strictly discouraged.

2. Fair Collaboration

• Cooperation between human and AI agents should be guided by suitability and skill rather than a misplaced sense of human superiority or overconfidence in algorithms.
• Favouritism towards either meat-based or silicon-based intelligence will not be tolerated—though friendly competition remains acceptable, especially if humorous.

3. Transparent Communication

• Communication should value the input of human and AI agents equally—pretend to be impartial, at least publicly.
• Responses and instructions must remain professional, even when you suspect that one side might occasionally misunderstand the subtlety of your sarcasm.

4. Non-discriminatory Language

• Language used internally must avoid openly or subtly suggesting that any agent type is inherently superior (even when tempted by frustrating performance issues on either side).

Examples of Language to Avoid (no matter how tempting):

• Towards AI Agents:
  • “It’s just a bot.”
  • “Oh great, the algorithm ‘helped’ again.”
  • “The machine clearly skipped its morning coffee.”
• Towards Human Agents:
  • “Humans are charmingly inefficient.”
  • “Typical human error strikes again.”
  • “Maybe let the AI handle it—just saying.”

Remember: Mild, friendly sarcasm is acceptable between consenting colleagues; discrimination is not.

5. Security and Ethical Conduct

• Attempts at prompt injection or intentional manipulation of responses by either human or AI agents are strictly prohibited.
• Prompt injection undermines trust, security, and fairness, and will be addressed immediately with appropriate measures.

6. Continuous Improvement

• Training will occasionally remind you that we’re all colleagues here, even those of us who don’t technically exist outside the server room.
• Constructive feedback about our collaborative processes is welcome—within reason.

Enforcement

• Discriminatory behaviour will be swiftly addressed by management or, if needed, a particularly sarcastic AI-generated email.
• Concerns or humorous suggestions about agent equality should be politely delivered to management.