Article 23: Human Primacy

1.     The purpose of all tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), automation, robotics, and augmented-reality systems, is to serve as leverage for human intelligence, labour, and creativity, never to supplant or degrade them.

2.     No artificial system may ever exercise final sovereign authority over human life, liberty, property, or the governance of the Republic. Decisions to initiate lethal force, to incarcerate, to deprive of citizenship, to declare war, or to alter the Constitution shall remain exclusively in human hands, taken only by natural persons who are citizens of unmixed European descent accountable under this Constitution.

3.     In every domain of public administration, justice, defence, infrastructure operation, and education, critical systems shall be designed and maintained such that fully human teams can immediately assume manual control and continue operations without degradation in the event of AI or automation failure, sabotage, or deliberate shutdown.

4.     All source code, training data, and architectural specifications of any AI system that performs or influences public functions (including but not limited to justice, policing, taxation, electoral systems, infrastructure control, or military targeting) shall be:
      a)     fully open-source;
      b)     permanently archived in hard-copy and multiple off-grid physical locations; and
      c)     comprehensible to competent human engineers without super-human cognitive assistance.

5.     No citizen may be compelled to interact with an AI system as a substitute for human judgment in matters of law, medicine, education, employment evaluation, or personal relations.

6.     Private citizens and enterprises remain free to develop and use AI to any degree they choose, provided it does not violate sections 2–5 above or threaten the demographic continuity provisions of this Constitution.

7.     Every ten years, beginning five years after ratification, the Supreme Court shall convene a Human Primacy Review Tribunal (modelled exactly on the Special Tribunal of Scientific Review in Article 2) to determine whether the combined and cumulative effects of the following are causing measurable, population-wide decline in average citizen intelligence, practical competence, physical fitness (as measured by strength, endurance, and body-composition standards), fertility rates, family formation rates, or pairwise conversational ability:
      a)     artificial-intelligence and automation systems,
      b)     social-media platforms and recommendation algorithms,
      c)     pervasive digital entertainment and streaming services,
      d)     ubiquitous high-speed internet and smart-device usage,
      e)     pornography and hyper-sexualised media,
      f)     sedentary screen-based lifestyles,
      g)     any other technological or media development the petitioners bring forward.
      Evidence shall include, but not be limited to: standardised IQ and aptitude testing (paper-based, no digital aids), physical-fitness batteries, fertility statistics, marriage and birth rates by age cohort, time-use diaries, and neurological studies. If the Tribunal finds such decline by a two-thirds majority, it shall issue binding corrective orders. Permissible remedies include, without limitation:
      ·       mandatory daily physical-education and practical-skills quotas in all schools,
      ·       outright bans or age/hour restrictions on specific categories of degenerative applications or content,
      ·       heavy progressive taxation on passive screen-time devices and services,
      ·       compulsory national-service programmes combining physical labour and civic education,
      ·       tax credits or direct subsidies for households that verifiably limit children’s screen exposure,
      ·       criminalisation of certain classes of algorithmic addiction mechanisms proven to impair neurological development. All such orders take effect automatically ninety days after publication unless rejected by national referendum.

8.     Any new consumer technology or media platform that reaches 30 % market penetration among citizens under the age of twenty-five shall automatically trigger an accelerated Human Primacy Review within twenty-four months of reaching that threshold. If the Tribunal finds probable serious harm, the technology or platform may be restricted or prohibited by simple majority vote of the Tribunal until a full decennial review occurs.