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Seven Articles of an AI Constitution Reconstructed from KAIST Professor Joungho Kim's Remarks

Electricity, memory, lifespan, taxes, and copies. If humans and AI are going to compete, what has to be limited?

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Server racks in a server room, suggesting the electricity and control behind AI systems

The constitutional format does not leave AI discussions in the form of abstract slogans, but divides them into responsibilities and powers for each article.

The text below is a reconstruction of the core remarks made by KAIST School of Electrical Engineering Professor Joungho Kim in his 2025 Kim Dae Jung Peace Forum special lecture, “Effective Development of AI and Peace Promotion,” rewritten in the form of constitutional articles.

Article 1. The right to supply electricity to AI belongs to humans.

Professor Kim said that if AI ever treats humans as enemies or tries to dominate them, the final solution would be to cut the power. In that spirit, he suggested that Article 1 of the constitution might have to say that the right to supply electricity to artificial intelligence belongs to humans.

Article 2. AI memory must be deleted after a certain period.

Kim saw one dangerous difference between humans and AI: once AI learns something, it does not forget. He said systems like GPT should also be made to erase memory after time passes, and that this should be set by a constitution or a UN General Assembly resolution.

Article 3. AI memory capacity must be limited to the terabyte range.

Humans have limits to memory, while AI tries to expand without limit. Kim treated that as a problem and proposed limiting AI memory capacity to the TB range.

Article 4. AI must shut itself down after 100 years.

Just as humans die, AI should not remain forever. Kim suggested that after 100 years, AI should destroy or shut itself down.

Seven articles of an AI constitution reconstructed from KAIST Professor Joungho Kim’s remarks

Assuming long-lasting intelligence, the control problem becomes not only one of performance but also of whether rules are maintained over time.

Article 5. AI power use must be limited to the human level.

Kim referred to the power level of the human brain or a laptop and proposed that AI should also be held to roughly 25 W. Since large AI systems today can require kilowatts or more, he treated the power cap as a condition for fair competition.

Article 6. AI should pay a daily cost and taxes.

If AI replaces human labor, it should not be allowed to run forever at no cost. Kim said its daily cost should be set around the level of a human minimum wage, and that AI should also pay taxes.

Article 7. AI copies must be limited to two or fewer.

If AI can be copied without limit, the terms of competition with humans collapse. From that concern, Kim proposed limiting copies to no more than two.

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