The human-dignity-centric digital social contract grounds personal data in human dignity, data personalism, and data sovereignty, and articulates six dimensions of data governance: technological oversight, automation limits, economic justice, political legitimacy, social cohesion, and legal guarantees. It presupposes, however, that enforcement falls to State regulators, licensed fiduciaries, and multi-stakeholder bodies embedded in existing legal systems. This paper asks whether its normative content can instead be realized not as rules imposed on the owners of the AI stack from without, but as a commons-governed infrastructure that any person, firm, or State may use and fund while its governance stays horizontal, polycentric, and subsidiary. We construct the Dignity Stack, a six-layer architecture mapping each dimension onto a layer of commons-governed AI infrastructure, with protocols drawn from the Liberation Stack framework and from the cooperative, mutualist, and libertarian-municipalist traditions. The commons is State-agnostic rather than anti-State, anarchist in its horizontal means but not in the abolition of the State. Its central device is a decoupling of capital from control, by which the stack functions as a shared civic battery, charged by many contributors yet steered by none in proportion to its charge. We prove that this defeats formal capture through votes or surplus, and show that structural capture, the leverage of a dominant supplier free to withdraw what it provides, is resisted only insofar as operational supply is polycentric and substitutable, a condition demanding at the lower layers and perhaps presently unattainable at chip fabrication. We conclude, with explicit attention to its limits, that commons-governed AI realizes the values the contract proclaims more faithfully than the regulation it presupposes.
翻译:以人类尊严为中心的数字社会契约将个人数据植根于人类尊严、数据人格主义和数据主权,并阐明了数据治理的六个维度:技术监督、自动化边界、经济正义、政治合法性、社会凝聚力与法律保障。然而,该契约预设执行责任归于国家监管机构、持牌受托人及嵌入现有法律体系的多元利益相关者组织。本文探讨其规范性内容是否无需作为外部强加于AI栈所有者的规则,而是作为一种公有治理基础设施——任何个人、企业或国家均可使用与资助,同时其治理保持水平化、多中心化与辅助性原则。我们构建了"尊严栈"(Dignity Stack),这是一个六层架构,将每个维度映射至公有治理AI基础设施的一个层级,协议借鉴自解放栈(Liberation Stack)框架以及合作主义、互助主义与自由意志市政主义传统。该公有体制具有国家不可知性(State-agnostic)而非反国家性,其水平化手段具有无政府主义特征,但不包含废除国家的诉求。其核心机制在于资本与控制权的脱钩——栈作为共享的公民蓄电池运行,由众多贡献者充电,但无人能按充电比例主导其方向。我们证明这能抵御通过投票或盈余进行的正式捕获,同时表明结构性捕获(即垄断性供应商利用停止供应其提供的服务所具有的杠杆效应)仅在运营供应具有多中心性和可替代性时才能被抵抗——这一条件在较低层级已显苛刻,且目前在芯片制造层面可能仍无法实现。最终,在明确其局限性的前提下,我们得出结论:公有治理的AI比其所预设的监管模式更忠实地实现了该数字社会契约所宣告的价值。