About

Our AI Charter™ belongs to a broader program:

Working to build a free and fair society where technology is used responsibly and enables well-grounded decision-making.

Within that program, Our AI Charter is an early public draft proposing an international network of open AI models whose providers would commit to common public obligations. The proposed network would include a governance-and-evidence layer separate from service provision, with AI Assurance & Certification (principles, obligations, evaluation, and a future assurance structure) as its trust-and-evidence building block. It is a contribution toward the broader public-AI movement, not an affiliation claim with any existing coalition unless stated. This repository is the public home of that work. The five-pillar overview explains how the parts relate under shared public obligations and accountable human governance, and identifies Robert Schaub’s current EGA focus.

Stewardship and governance

Our AI Charter and the FactHarbor evidence platform are stewarded by the FactHarbor association (Verein), a non-profit under Art. 60 ff. of the Swiss Civil Code, based in Dietlikon (Zürich) and founded in 2026.

The two projects act on one premise — better information leads to better decisions — and serve the same public-benefit purpose from different sides:

• Our AI Charter sets accountability expectations for AI systems people may rely on.
• FactHarbor turns contested claims into structured evidence models so reasoning can be inspected instead of asserted.

The association binds itself to the standards this program asks of public AI infrastructure: open-by-default licensing, political and religious neutrality, public disclosure of major funding and compensation, and a closed list of prohibited funding sources — advertising, sale of user data, pay-for-rating, political or lobbying money, and anything that would compromise independence. Any surplus is reinvested in the purpose.

Robert Schaub initiated Our AI Charter and maintains this repository. He is FactHarbor's founder and lead architect, with a long background in software engineering and project leadership. Contact: info@factharbor.ch. Fuller public background: LinkedIn.

The association’s stewardship does not itself transfer copyright. Robert Schaub holds copyright in his own contributions; other contributions remain subject to their respective rights holders. See NOTICE and the licensing guide for copyright attribution and reuse terms.

Private administrative work — legal, finance, banking, fundraising, Verein operations, personal correspondence, operational strategy, superseded working records, and explicitly INTERNAL material — is kept outside the public repositories. Current public drafts remain here only when they have a durable subject home and a clear public reader.