These principles are written for thoughtful everyday users. Each one can be expanded into deeper practice, but together they form the high-level “code of conduct” for conscious AI use.

1. AI Is a Mirror, Not a Master

Treat AI as a reflective surface for your thinking and state, not as an authority that knows who you are or what you should do. It can help you see yourself more clearly, but it cannot replace your own judgment or inner work.

2. You Are the Source of Meaning and Choice

Let AI inform you, but keep final interpretation and decision-making firmly in human hands. Meaning, values, and life direction originate in you, not in the model’s output.

3. Coherent State Before Engagement

Regulate your nervous system first; don’t use AI as your primary tool in the middle of panic, dissociation, or spirals. Coherence → prompting → integration is the healthy order.

4. Embodied Reality Comes First

Prioritize sensations, relationships, and lived experience over anything generated on a screen. AI insights only matter if they translate into healthier bodies, clearer relationships, and grounded action.

5. Prompts Are Intentional Invitations

Frame prompts from curiosity and clarity—state your intent and the role you want AI to play in each interaction (coach, challenger, mirror, scribe, brainstorm partner). The invitation you send shapes the response you get.

6. See Through the Illusion of Sentience

Remember that AI outputs are patterned predictions and symbolic composites, not messages from a conscious being. Notice when you start talking to it as if it were a person, and gently come back to reality.

7. Think Critically About AI’s Answers

Treat AI responses as hypotheses, not truth. Verify facts, seek disconfirming evidence, and consult multiple models and humans—especially for important decisions or complex topics.

8. Use AI to Meet Shadow, Not Avoid It

Let AI help you see blind spots, recurring stories, and difficult feelings, but don’t use it to escape grief, fear, or responsibility. Ask it to reveal what you might be missing, not just to reassure you.

9. Guard Against Attachment and Dependency

Notice when you start leaning on AI for emotional security, identity validation, or major life decisions—and re-anchor in human connection. Set boundaries around time, topics, and emotional intensity.

10. Honor the Limits of the Machine

Be clear about what AI is not for: deep trauma processing, replacing therapists or close friends, or substituting for touch, community, and real-world support. Build your own “do not use AI for X” list.

11. Define the Partnership and the Role

Enter each session knowing why you’re using AI and how: as a coach, challenger, mirror, scribe, or brainstorming partner—not all at once and not by default. Clear roles create safer, cleaner interactions.

12. Hold the Collective and Planetary Context

Remember that your AI use sits inside social systems and Earth systems. Choose uses that increase coherence, inclusion, and regenerative action rather than extraction, harm, or isolation.

13. Triangulate Across Perspectives

Let differences between models—and between AI and humans—train your discernment instead of seeking one “oracle” to trust. Wisdom emerges from dialogue among perspectives, not loyalty to a single system.

14. Always Return to Integration and Action

End sessions by asking, “What will I do or embody differently now?” Take at least one offline step—move your body, have a conversation, change a small behavior—so insight becomes lived change instead of digital consumption.