04 · How it happened
From a room to the UN
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Pol.is deliberation
39 participants wrote and voted on 84 statements, live and for 24 hours after — the results above.
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Reflections Working Group
Participants distilled the record into ten Geneva Reflection Principles.
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Quadratic vote
17 participants weighed the ten principles, 99 credits each.
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UN Joint Secretariat
The principles and their voting record, delivered ten days after the event.
What the vote prioritized
Each of the 17 voters had 99 credits: one vote costs 1, two cost 4, three cost 9 — spending reveals how much people care, and a budget just shy of 100 nudges it across items. Spending against an item was allowed.
Privacy, not surveillance 62 · every voter in favor
Never manipulate 62 · every voter in favor
Help us think, not answer for us 50
Care that leads to people 46
Answerable values 45
Teach wise use 44
Community-built AI 44 · every voter in favor
Challenge and correct 43
No engineered dependence 41
The right to choose AI’s place in faith 15
17 voters · 99 credits each · aggregate totals only, by design.
The protections came first: Privacy, not surveillance and Never manipulate tied at 62, with not one vote against. Community-built AI finished mid-table on votes — but it was one of only three items every voter spent credits on: broad, unopposed support rather than intensity. And the room declined to force its open question: AI's place in faith drew the least spending.
Ten days after the event, the ten Geneva Reflection Principles — with this voting record — were delivered to the UN Joint Secretariat of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance. The conveners are now shaping the next phase: supporting communities of belief to author and govern AI of their own.
