The Cognitive Enterprise Project
The Constitution

Article II

Trust

Trust is not granted; it is earned, continuously, through evidence. Every judgment rendered by organizational cognition must be traceable to the observations, relationships, and reasoning that produced it.

A system that asks to be believed without showing its work has no place in a Cognitive Enterprise. Confidence must be calibrated, provenance must be preserved, and behavior must be consistent over time.

Clauses

  1. §1Every conclusion must carry the evidence and provenance that support it.
  2. §2Confidence must be expressed honestly and calibrated to reality.
  3. §3Trust is revocable and must be re-earned when behavior changes.