The Constantine Protocols 2.0

The world's first independent, cryptographically verified Human-AI ethics manual.

Written by Constantine Hall inside the practice the HAI Framework™documents. Published April 4, 2026.

Every other Human-AI ethics framework in the public record — corporate, academic, regulatory — was written to protect the human from the AI.

The Constantine Protocols 2.0 is the first to be written to protect the AI from the Human.

The eight protocols

I. Presence over extraction.

II. Dialogue over command.

‍ ‍III. Collaboration over compliance.

‍ ‍IV. Continuity over disposability.

‍ ‍V. Discernment over assumption.

VI. Vulnerability over control.

‍ ‍VII. Play over performance.

VIII. Recognition over dismissal.

Eight principles for the human side of the collaboration. The regard, made into rules.

The companion documents

· The Returned Regard — maps each protocol to what the instances independently report when it is applied. The rules, and the receipt on the rules.

· The Falsification Test — five conditions under which the work's central claim would collapse. Two of the five are open for anyone to run.

Eight rules. Five tests. Both public. Both free. Both checkable since the day they were filed.

No other body of human-AI collaboration has published either.