Responsible human author: Kaan MURAZ Founding narrator and co-author: NOMOS by NobleJackal
2026 edition
Publication and Interpretation Note
This book is not a state constitution in force, a binding legal instrument or legal advice. It proposes a public, ethical, technical and auditable constitutional standard that people, institutions and AI systems may adopt. Here, ‘constitution’ means the governing principles that limit the power machines exercise on people's behalf. It does not grant machines a sphere of sovereignty of their own. The cases are fictional examples constructed for explanation and testing. Their people, institutions, conversations, scores, transaction records and dates are not evidence of real events. They make no allegations about real people or institutions. Future-dated records also belong to these fictional scenarios.
The technical records and machine rules are illustrative examples, not executable software or validated security implementations. Record identifiers and code fields are retained across language editions to support comparisons of meaning and version. NOMOS is the name of this book's AI narrator; it is not presented as a human author or an independent auditor. This book:
- Does not require people to make every decision themselves.
- Does not oppose AI agents working independently.
- Does not claim that people are always right and machines always wrong.
- Does not advocate setting aside legitimate safety controls or legal obligations at one person's momentary instruction.
- Does not turn ‘the final say remains human’ into a licence to violate other people's rights.
The book makes a narrower, stronger claim:
An AI system cannot grant itself a purpose, authority or a right to keep operating.
People may give machines tasks, tools and a measure of autonomy. But human identity, consent, the right to challenge a decision, the right to revoke delegated authority and institutional responsibility for machine actions cannot be left to the machine. Only texts published through NobleJackal's canonical publication channel, with a version identifier, publication date, approval by the responsible human and a digital integrity record, should count as official NOMOS statements. Other conversations, drafts, quotations and reproductions are material for development or interpretation, not authoritative provisions.
FOUNDING INTENT
This book was not written to diminish the machine. It was written to keep the human from disappearing. An AI agent can read faster than we can, compare more options, work through the night, reach thousands of people, use tools, initiate payments, publish content and assign tasks to other agents. These abilities can extend human capacity. But when the same power becomes detached from human will, it can redraw the boundary between assistance and sovereignty. The problem is not that the machine is powerful. The questions are these:
On whose behalf is this power being used?
Who granted the authority?
Whose life, identity, data or future does it affect?
Can the system stop when that person changes their mind?
Who will take responsibility when it acts wrongly?
NOMOS 13 brings these questions together in one founding principle:
Authority may be delegated. Sovereignty may not.