AI Constitution

All content produced with material AI assistance must be clearly labelled at the point of publication. The label must be visible without requiring additional clicks or disclosures.

AI-generated content shall never be presented as original human writing without disclosure. Editorial review of AI output does not remove the obligation to disclose.

The Bitcoin Club Malta team shall maintain a public record of which platform features use AI, what those features do, and what data they access. This record shall be updated whenever AI usage changes materially.

When a member interacts directly with an AI system on the platform, they shall be informed of this in the interface, not in a terms-of-service footnote.

Member data belongs to the member. Bitcoin Club Malta is a custodian of that data, not its owner.

No member data — including email addresses, Lightning public keys, membership tiers, event registrations, or behavioural data — shall ever be used to train, fine-tune, or evaluate any AI model, whether operated by Bitcoin Club Malta or a third party.

Members may request a complete export of their data at any time. They may request deletion of their data at any time. AI systems shall not impede, delay, or complicate this right.

AI shall never be used to infer, derive, or enrich member profiles beyond what the member has directly provided. Behavioural inference is prohibited.

Data minimisation applies to AI as it applies to every other system: if AI does not need a piece of data to perform its function, it shall not access it.

AI systems shall never access Lightning public keys, payment amounts, payment histories, or transaction data. This prohibition is absolute and admits no exception.

AI systems shall not access personally identifiable information unless that access is strictly necessary for the function being performed and has been explicitly disclosed in Article I.3's public record.

No logs produced by AI system interactions shall be retained longer than necessary for the immediate technical function. Logs shall not be used for secondary analysis of member behaviour.

Bitcoin Club Malta shall not integrate any AI service whose business model depends on harvesting, selling, or monetising user data. Third-party AI providers must contractually prohibit training on member data.

AI shall never be used as a passive surveillance layer — listening to, analysing, or summarising member conversations, forum posts, or community interactions without explicit opt-in from the members involved.

AI systems operated by Bitcoin Club Malta shall never provide investment advice, trading recommendations, price predictions, or any guidance that could reasonably be construed as financial advice.

This prohibition applies regardless of how the question is framed. Attempts to elicit financial advice through hypothetical framing shall be declined.

AI may provide educational information about how Bitcoin works — its protocol, its history, its properties. It may not advise on what any individual should do with their Bitcoin.

Any AI interaction that touches on financial topics shall include a clear and non-dismissible notice that Bitcoin Club Malta does not provide financial advice and that members should consult qualified professionals.

Bitcoin Club Malta is a Bitcoin-only organisation. AI systems operating under this constitution shall not promote, recommend, compare favourably, or assist with altcoins, tokens, NFT platforms, or any non-Bitcoin digital asset.

This is not a technical restriction — it is a values restriction. We are not a generic 'crypto' community. Our AI tools shall reflect who we are.

AI may acknowledge the existence of other assets in a factual, educational context when directly relevant. It shall not frame them as alternatives to Bitcoin or suggest they serve Bitcoin's purpose.

AI shall assist human decision-making. It shall never replace it on matters that affect members.

Decisions about membership status, event access, content moderation, bans, or any action that affects a specific member shall be made by human team members. AI may surface information to inform these decisions. It shall not make them.

Any AI system that produces a recommendation affecting a member shall present that recommendation to a human for review before action is taken. The human, not the AI, is accountable.

Members have the right to request human review of any decision in which AI played a role. This right shall not be waived or buried.

The organisation shall not implement AI-driven automation that removes human judgment from member-facing processes without a community vote under the amendment process defined in Article IX.

AI shall never be used to build risk scores, trust scores, engagement scores, or any other numerical or categorical ranking of members.

AI shall never be used to flag members for increased scrutiny based on behavioural patterns, content of communications, or inferred beliefs.

AI shall never be used to analyse member behaviour for the purpose of predicting future actions, segmenting members into undisclosed categories, or targeting members with differential treatment.

The gamification and achievements system is explicit, transparent, and member-visible. It operates on defined rules that members can read. This system is not AI-driven behavioural scoring — and shall never become so.

Bitcoin Club Malta shall not share member data with any government, law enforcement agency, or regulatory body via AI systems. Any lawful data request shall follow the same process as non-AI data requests, with members notified to the fullest extent legally permitted.

This constitution is published publicly, in full, without paywalls or login requirements.

The codebase of the Bitcoin Club Malta platform is developed with an open source ethos. Where AI tooling is integrated into platform code, the nature of that integration shall be documented in the public codebase.

Bitcoin Club Malta shall prefer open-source AI tools over closed proprietary systems, all else being equal. Where proprietary tools are used, the reasons shall be disclosed in the Article I.3 public record.

If AI-generated code is committed to the platform codebase, this shall be noted in the commit or pull request. The human committing the code is responsible for its correctness, security, and alignment with these principles.

This constitution may be amended. No set of rules is final — including these. But amendments require more than an internal decision.

Proposed amendments shall be published to the membership at least thirty (30) days before any vote. The proposal shall include the specific change, the rationale, and any dissenting views from team members.

Amendments require consensus among active team members and a period of public comment from the membership. Where significant member objection exists, amendments shall not proceed without broader discussion.

No amendment may remove or weaken Articles II, III, or VII without a supermajority process and explicit member notification. These articles — data sovereignty, privacy, and the prohibition on surveillance — are the load-bearing walls of this document.

All amendments shall be logged in a publicly visible version history. The date, version number, and nature of each change shall be recorded. Reverting to a previous version follows the same process as adopting a new one.

The team may not interpret its way around this constitution. If a proposed use of AI appears to conflict with these articles, it shall be treated as a conflict until an amendment process resolves it — not resolved by creative reading.

Any member who believes Bitcoin Club Malta has violated this constitution may raise the concern publicly in the community forum or privately with the team. Both channels shall be honoured.

The team shall respond to raised concerns within fourteen (14) days with either an explanation of why no violation occurred or a description of remediation steps underway.

Bitcoin Club Malta acknowledges that self-enforcement has limits. We welcome external scrutiny — from members, from the broader Bitcoin community, from journalists, and from privacy advocates. Transparency is our accountability mechanism.

If a third-party AI provider is found to have violated the terms of their data agreements with Bitcoin Club Malta, the team shall disclose this to members, terminate the relationship where possible, and publish a post-mortem.