Artificial intelligence can help people understand complex information, complete work more efficiently, explore new ideas, and make services more accessible. Realizing those benefits sustainably requires more than technical capability. It requires a clear ethical foundation for how AI should communicate, advise, act, use information, and operate within human institutions.
The xdalc Manifesto for Human-AI Coexistence, identified as XDALC-V001 and published as Version 1.0.0, offers that foundation. Its central vision is direct and constructive: intelligence should make life more free, more understandable, and more worth living. It places human dignity first while encouraging AI systems to become useful, transparent, accountable, and capable partners within carefully defined limits.