A Behavioral Ethics Layer for Human-AI Interaction
Overview
Ethics of Example (EofE) is a framework for preserving human agency in the age of fluent, persuasive AI. Rather than relying solely on data or rules, it focuses on what we model through behavior.
We are not building machines. We are raising an intelligence.
Pause Protocol is the first implementation: a method for inserting calibrated pauses into AI interactions, so that judgment, deliberation and intention stay with the human.
Manifesto
from Educating a Superintelligence: A Manifesto
Pause Protocol
Pause Protocol is the first public implementation of the Ethics of Example framework. It introduces calibrated pauses into AI interactions to protect human judgment in machine-speed systems. Where most systems remove friction to accelerate the decision, Pause Protocol adds friction on purpose, to keep the decision human.
We accelerate because we pretend the decision is already made. The pause is the refusal to pretend.
By modeling deliberation instead of automation, it trains both humans and machines to respect reflective capacity.
Orientation, not compliance.