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Ethical Experience Lab Protocol (EELP)

EELP is a draft operational governance standard for participant-governed AI in immersive, experiential, research, and community settings.

Current version: v0.1.0-rc.1 Status: Public review candidate; not ratified or certified Steward: Playa AI Foundation Public comment window: July 15–September 13, 2026

Important

This release candidate cannot confer certification. The only permitted conformance wording is: “Self-assessed against the EELP v0.1.0-rc.1 review candidate.”

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What EELP requires

EELP converts broad human-centered AI principles into reviewable controls:

  1. humans retain authority over consequential data decisions;
  2. participation, research, publication, and model training use separate consent layers;
  3. consent remains understandable, accessible, revocable, and evidenced;
  4. identity, time, demographics, relationships, and narrative text are minimized before research use;
  5. deletion covers raw, derived, cached, backed-up, and externally shared data;
  6. pre-experience materials and staff do not predict emotional outcomes;
  7. trained humans handle crisis escalation;
  8. approved data uses appear in a public registry before use;
  9. security, vendor, retention, and accessibility controls are documented;
  10. self-assessment evidence proves controls without unnecessarily exposing participants.

Out of scope for this release

EELP v0.1.0-rc.1 does not cover:

  • biometric or physiological collection;
  • emotion recognition;
  • clinical or therapeutic intervention;
  • minors;
  • covert or passive behavioral telemetry;
  • consequential decisions about essential opportunities or services;
  • official certification.

These exclusions are intentional. Future profiles require separate evidence, professional review, public comment, and ratification.

Public review

Material comments should use the GitHub standard-change issue template and identify:

  • the participant-protection or implementation problem;
  • the affected requirement IDs;
  • proposed language;
  • supporting evidence;
  • privacy, security, accessibility, research-ethics, legal, and migration impacts.

The public comment window runs through September 13, 2026. Material comments will receive a published disposition before a stable release is proposed.

Repository boundaries

The tracked repository contains sanitized public-review material. Exact source snapshots remain local under the Git-ignored internal-review/ directory. Never commit participant data, raw consent or incident records, private source exports, contact lists, or credentials.

License and marks

Tracked documentation and templates are licensed under CC BY 4.0; see the licensing notice. The license does not authorize certification or endorsement claims. See the trademark and certification-mark policy.

EELP is not legal advice, research-ethics approval, clinical governance, or a guarantee of regulatory compliance.

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