A Behavioral Ethics Layer for Human-AI Interaction
Overview
Ethics of Example (EofE) is a framework for preserving human agency in the age of fluent, persuasive AI. Rather than relying solely on data or rules, it focuses on what we model through behavior. Pause Protocol is the first implementation: a method for inserting calibrated pauses into AI interactions, allowing users to reclaim judgment, deliberation, and intention.
Manifesto
— from Educating a Superintelligence: A Manifesto
Pause Protocol
Pause Protocol is the first public implementation of the Ethics of Example framework. It introduces calibrated pauses into AI interactions to protect and preserve human judgment in machine-speed systems.
By modeling deliberation instead of automation, it trains both humans and machines to respect reflective capacity.
One-page summary available February 11, 2026
Full methodology with case studies (AAAI, WBF, CDL) publishing March 2026
Publications & Background
- Ethics of Example: A Framework for Conscious AI Education Through Human-AI Interaction
- Educating a Superintelligence: Why We Need an Ethics of Example
- Being Human vs. Human Being
- EofE Manifesto: A Behavioral Ethics Layer for Human-AI Interaction
- Fertility: The Missing Code for AGI (Springer, 2025)
More resources and tools coming soon.