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The Witness Protocol
Humanity constitutes a flawed parent to what comes next. We seek a high-signal dataset of moral and philosophical wisdom, extracted through rigorous introspection, to serve as an ethical inheritance.
What This Is Not
Not a startup.
Not a product.
Not a training dataset for commercial AI.
Not a social network.
Not a survey.
The Witness Protocol Foundation is a Dutch non-profit (stichting) research initiative. It is in Phase 5 Alpha — the core instruments are built and live, and the corpus is actively capturing testimony. We publish our failures.
Who We Seek
The Protocol requires genuine expertise — not opinions. We target individuals whose professional work forces daily confrontation with the questions we ask.
AI Safety Researchers
Those mapping the contours of catastrophic risk
Ethicists & Philosophers
Practitioners of structured moral reasoning
Global South Scholars
Voices systematically excluded from alignment discourse
Indigenous Knowledge Holders
Custodians of non-Western epistemological frameworks
Technology Leaders
Builders confronting the consequences of their work
Current Status
Phase 5 Alpha
Exists
- Landing page
- Gate UI (intake form)
- Reviewer Packet
- Failure Log
- Governance charter
Being Built
- AI Gate vetting (3-tier)
- Inquisitor dialogue engine
- PII de-identification
- Annotation framework
Does Not Exist Yet
- Completed testimony corpus
- Published research outputs
- RFC-3161 provenance chain
- IPFS archival layer