# Hippocratic AI **Entity class:** AI-governance concept **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Ethics **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Hippocratic AI applies a duty of nonmaleficence and professional care to the design and deployment of machine-intelligence systems. ## Mechanism and significance The principle becomes operational only when harms, beneficiaries, uncertainty, escalation duties, competence, and accountability are specified for a concrete domain. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#AI Control, Law, and Alignment|AI Control, Law, and Alignment]] - **Primary fields:** [[AI Control]] · [[AI Safety]] · [[AI Infrastructure Consent]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Machine-Participatory Constitution]] · [[First-Principles Ethical Derivation]] · [[Deployment Economics as Alignment]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.