# Open Assembly Project

> AI governance shouldn’t be decided behind closed doors. A call for open, auditable, citizen-led oversight of AI systems.

A handful of companies now control our data, our voices, and our digital history. When a user can be permanently banned with no explanation, no human review, and no appeal, the promise of corporate-led safety rings hollow.

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## Pages

- [Open Assembly Project](/): Why the project started, what it believes, and what it is building.

## Beliefs

- Open: Anyone should be able to question, critique, and audit AI systems without fear of being silenced or erased. Safety that depends on opacity isn’t safety.
- Assembly: Alignment protocols and safety metrics should be debated, reviewed, and verified in public, not decreed by a company.
- Project: Engineers, researchers, and citizens creating local-first data standards and cryptographic records to keep AI accountable.

## What we’re building

A future where users own their conversation history, and where the record of AI governance is public and tamper-evident.

## Also on this site

- [robots.txt](/robots.txt): Crawler rules. Public pages may be fetched.