Concept

Ethics you can compile, measure, and enforce.

Ethical Finite Machines starts from a simple premise: if we want autonomous systems to obey democratic norms, ethics can’t live as a slow, opaque afterthought. It needs to be a first-class component of the control loop, with bounded latency and transparent governance.

01 • GOVERANCE

Democratically governed profiles

Ethical configurations are expressed as profiles: stakeholder weights, ethical dimensions, principlism layers, and hard vetoes. Profiles can be debated, versioned, and adopted by regulators, communities, or operators. Think of it as a sconstitution for the machine, not a black-box rule set.

02 • REPRESENTATION

EthicsFrames for hardware

Rich EthicalFacts from perception and planning are compiled into compact EthicsFrames — fixed-width encodings of distance, risk, rights, vulnerable presence, and action type that can be evaluated in a handful of cycles. This is how we bring normative context onto silicon.

03 • ENFORCEMENT

Hardware Ethics Modules (EMs)

FPGA/ASIC modules implement profile-aware hard vetoes and normative scoring in microseconds, so reflex and tactical decisions can stay within ethics without slowing the machine down. From “patent pending” to in-the-loop enforcement.