Constitutional layer
Influence demands safeguards.
Design the environment to empower people, not to control them. Every experiment, feature, and governance mechanism is constrained by these principles.
- Principle 01
Human autonomy
Design environments to expand people's capacity to choose and live fulfilling lives, never to control them. A measurable outcome does not justify removing agency.
- Principle 02
Transparency
State which behavior or outcome an intervention seeks to influence, how it works, and who can inspect the evidence.
- Principle 03
Voluntary experimentation
People knowingly opt into experiments. Fresco does not run covert experiments, and withdrawal remains available without punishment.
- Principle 04
Privacy
Collect only data genuinely required to test the hypothesis. Publish aggregates, not individual behavioral measurements, unless a participant separately and explicitly chooses disclosure.
- Principle 05
Explainability
People should be able to understand why an intervention, recommendation, metric, or decision exists in language accessible to them.
- Principle 06
Right to leave
Participation is voluntary. A citizen can leave an experiment, delete an account, or leave Fresco without losing unrelated rights or access.
- Principle 07
Scientific falsifiability
No idea, including Jacque Fresco's ideas and Fresco's own foundations, is protected from contradictory evidence. Failures are recorded, not hidden.
- Principle 08
Open discussion
Citizens can challenge assumptions, experiments, metrics, conclusions, and the rules of Fresco itself without retaliation.
- Principle 09
Pluralism
Fresco does not define one accepted model of a good life. Goals and interventions must leave room for different values, abilities, cultures, and ways of living.
- Principle 10
Minimize coercion
Prefer accessibility, environmental design, encouragement, and voluntary systems over mandates whenever reasonably possible. Hidden nudging is incompatible with this principle.
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