A declaration supporting equitable, multilingual, understandable, and responsible access to useful knowledge across geography, language, ability, literacy, infrastructure, and economic circumstance.
We support the responsible expansion of multilingual, understandable, and context-aware access to knowledge.
We seek to design and deploy technology that helps more people ask questions, understand information, discover resources, and participate in learning and decision-making.
Knowledge-access systems should consider the needs of people who face barriers related to language, disability, literacy, geography, infrastructure, device availability, or economic circumstance.
Equitable access does not mean identical delivery in every context; it requires practical adaptation and attention to real-world conditions.
Multilingual interaction can help reduce language barriers and support participation.
Automated translation may contain errors, and high-stakes communication should receive qualified human review when accuracy is consequential.
Information should be presented as clearly as practical, with appropriate structure, explanation, and alternative interaction methods.
Users should be supported in understanding that AI-generated information may be incomplete, outdated, or incorrect.
Knowledge access should account for intermittent connectivity, limited bandwidth, shared devices, older equipment, power constraints, and remote or off-grid environments.
Deployment claims should be accurate about availability, performance, maintenance, and operational limitations.
Technology should strengthen local learning, educator capacity, institutional knowledge, and community participation.
Programs should avoid replacing local expertise or creating dependency on systems that cannot be maintained responsibly.
Access to knowledge should not require unnecessary collection of personal or sensitive information.
Programs should protect people from manipulation, discrimination, surveillance, exploitation, and foreseeable harm.
Responsible expansion depends on collaboration with communities, educators, NGOs, governments, researchers, and local institutions.
Partnerships should define roles, safeguards, data responsibilities, evaluation methods, and transition plans.
We should communicate material capabilities, limitations, dependencies, and intended uses accurately.
People and institutions should have practical ways to ask questions, report barriers, challenge significant errors, and request human review.
Global knowledge access is an ongoing organizational commitment rather than a claim of universal availability or completed impact.
We will continue to evaluate how our technologies can expand useful access while improving safety, accessibility, reliability, and institutional accountability.
Questions, concerns, deployment inquiries, safeguarding reports, or requests for institutional review may be submitted through the official I am J contact page.
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