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# Beyond Constitutional AI: Narrative-Based AI Framework

## 🚀 Test It Now

Copy the narrative prompt from `narrative-prompt.md` into any LLM to immediately see how narrative-based training changes AI behavior. No fine-tuning required - it works with existing models through prompt engineering.

## 📚 What This Is

A complete framework for training AI systems through **narrative understanding** rather than abstract rules. Instead of "be helpful and harmless," we teach AI through stories, literature, and philosophy - the same way humans learn complex moral reasoning.

## 📦 Contents

1. **`beyond-constitutional-ai.pdf`** - Full academic paper with theoretical foundation
2. **`narrative-ecosystems.pdf`** - Companion paper on ecosystem design and governance
3. **`narrative-prompt.md`** - Working implementation you can test immediately
4. **`LICENSE.md`** - Non-commercial license (commercial licensing available)

## 🎯 Why This Matters for Hugging Face

This framework aligns perfectly with HF's democratization mission:

- **Narrative Packs as Datasets**: Communities could upload curated narrative collections (Stoic pack, Ubuntu philosophy pack, etc.) as versioned datasets
- **Forkable Values**: Just like models, narrative frameworks could be forked, adapted, and improved by different communities
- **Transparent Curation**: Makes the hidden process of values embedding visible and participatory
- **Cultural Modularity**: Different cultures can contribute their own wisdom traditions as modular components

## 💡 Key Innovation

Humans learn morality through stories, not just rules. A therapist understands trauma through case studies, not personal experience. We apply this same principle to AI - teaching it to understand humans through our narratives.

## 🔧 Implementation Vision for HF

```python
# Future possibility on HF
from transformers import AutoModel
from datasets import load_dataset

model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("base-model")
narrative_pack = load_dataset("community/stoic-narratives")
model.apply_narrative_framework(narrative_pack)
```

## 📊 Core Concepts

### Narrative Packs
- **Stoic Pack**: Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus
- **Ubuntu Pack**: African folktales, communal ethics
- **Children's Wisdom**: Aesop's fables, Dr. Seuss
- **Conflict Resolution**: Buddhist sutras, restorative justice

### New Ecosystem Roles
- Narrative Curators
- Values Testers
- Cultural Mediators
- Ethical Product Designers

## 🌍 Community Participation

This approach transforms AI alignment from a centralized technical process to a distributed cultural practice. Communities worldwide could contribute their wisdom traditions as narrative packs, making AI values as diverse as human cultures.

## 📖 Quick Start Guide

1. Read the narrative prompt to understand the framework
2. Try it with any LLM (GPT-4, Claude, etc.)
3. Experiment with different character models and narrative sources
4. Consider how your cultural tradition could become a narrative pack

## 🤝 For Researchers

The papers include:
- Comparison with constitutional AI and formal methods
- Character complexity and contextual understanding
- Meta-reasoning for value conflicts
- Governance models for narrative curation
- Economic implications of distributed curation

## 📝 Citation

```
Mossrake Group, LLC. (2025). Beyond Constitutional AI: A Narrative-Based 
Methodology for Human-Centered AI Coexistence. Version 1.0.
```

## 🔗 Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/mossrake/beyond-constitutional-ai
- Contact: [Open an issue for commercial licensing or collaboration]

## 💬 Connect

@yacine @meg @sasha - This framework could enable HF to host "values" as modular, versioned, community-contributed datasets alongside models. Imagine narrative packs being as shareable and forkable as model weights.

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**Keywords**: narratives, alignment, ethics, cultural-ai, values, governance, coexistence, narrative-intelligence