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Covering psychosecurity
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Boilerplate
About the initiative
Short
Psychosecurity.ai is a research and policy initiative confronting AI-driven Zersetzung: the systematic psychological decomposition of individuals. It convenes the First Psychosecurity Summit and develops the Psychosecurity Framework, which sets out how existing international law can apply to this harm.
Long
Psychosecurity is the protection of individuals and societies from systematic psychological attack. The term names a gap: cybersecurity protects machines and information security protects data, but deliberate attacks on psychological integrity fall between security, clinical, and human-rights work. Psychosecurity connects the three. The initiative's reference point is Zersetzung, the Stasi's covert "decomposition" of dissidents' lives, recognised as state injustice in German rehabilitation law after reunification — a method artificial intelligence could now industrialise. Psychosecurity.ai convenes the invite-only First Psychosecurity Summit (late 2026, near London) to adopt a six-element framework and a declaration applying existing international law to AI-driven Zersetzung. The initiative is organised by the European Responsible Artificial Intelligence Office (EURAIO) and funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund.
Key Facts
Getting it right
- The term. Psychosecurity (one word, no hyphen): the protection of individuals and societies from systematic psychological attack. Zersetzung (German, "decomposition"): the Stasi's method of covert psychological repression, early 1970s–1989.
- The legal approach. The initiative argues that existing instruments, including the Rome Statute (Art. 7), the UN Convention against Torture (Arts. 1, 16), and the European Convention on Human Rights (Arts. 3, 8), can apply to systematic psychological abuse where their legal requirements are met. The proposed declaration aims to clarify how those protections apply.
- Not a ban on persuasion. The draft framework classifies most influence activity, including contested forms, below the red line. The prohibited category is narrow: systematic campaigns against named individuals or defined groups with intent to decompose rather than persuade.
- The summit. The First Psychosecurity Summit is an invite-only working session in late 2026, near London, held under the Chatham House Rule — no panels, no audience. Its intended output is the six-element Psychosecurity Framework, including a signable declaration, to be published afterwards for wider endorsement.
- Who. Convened by Nell Watson, President of the European Responsible Artificial Intelligence Office (EURAIO), a non-profit; summit design and delivery co-directed by Simona Popa; funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund.
Assets
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