Autonomy
Privacy is a condition of freedom.
People should retain meaningful control over their identities, information, and environments.
- The question
- What can I choose or refuse?
- Capability
- Control
- Outcome
- People retain meaningful boundaries and choices.
- In our promise
- As intelligence advances, we give people more power to understand, decide, and shape their own futures.
What can I choose or refuse?
AI is increasing the capabilities of surveillance, identification, profiling, monitoring, and analysis.
Meaningful personal autonomy requires practical ways to set and enforce boundaries, rather than relying only on institutional promises.
Where privacy, independence, and meaningful choice remain within reach.From the manifesto
Give people greater control over their boundaries and choices.
Our autonomy technologies:
- Give people more privacy choices.
- Reduce specific, defined kinds of unwanted exposure.
- Support control over personal information.
- Provide practical alternatives to passive reliance on institutional promises.
None of the three works alone.
Agency comes from the relationship among all three. Autonomy needs the other two, and they need it.
Clarity without autonomy lets people understand situations they may lack the ability to influence.
Autonomy without judgment creates choices without enough direction.
Judgment
Preserve human intent as intelligence becomes autonomous.
Clarity
Make increasingly complex information environments understandable.
What we’re building for autonomy.
Autonomy is a lasting commitment. Each venture is one way to deliver it, and we’ll build more as capabilities and human needs evolve.