Specifying “human interest” for automated constitutional enforcement

Specify a precise, machine‑interpretable representation of “human interest” suitable for encoding in the NetX System Charter so that constitutional constraints can be enforced automatically by smart contracts and adjudication mechanisms without relying on ambiguous normative glosses.

Background

At the apex of the governance hierarchy, the System Charter is intended to encode priority‑ranked normative constraints that anchor all autonomous behavior to human interests.

The authors recognize that articulating “human interest” at sufficient precision for automated enforcement is unresolved and will require iterative refinement through governance processes (§4.4.4).

References

The paper acknowledges that specifying “human interest” at sufficient precision for automated enforcement is an open research problem; the System Charter’s current specification is a working approximation subject to iterative refinement through the governance process described in §4.4.4.

— From Logic Monopoly to Social Contract: Separation of Power and the Institutional Foundations for Autonomous Agent Economies  (2603.25100 - Ruan, 26 Mar 2026) in §5.3.4.4, Ultimate Cultural (L‑L)