First 100
Founding-phase profile for the first advisor and contributor circle.
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Purpose
The First 100 is a founding-phase profile of the first advisor and contributor circle the Planetary Integrity Foundation should seek.
It is not a membership list, a hiring campaign, a public community target or a claim that one hundred people have already joined.
It is a design constraint: the initiative should grow first through a small, serious and diverse group of people able to improve governance, protocol quality, AI authority limits, evidence discipline, institutional credibility and public-interest relevance.
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Why the first circle matters
Early contributors shape the culture, standards and credibility of an institution.
If the first circle is too broad, the initiative becomes noisy.
If it is too narrow, the initiative becomes fragile.
If it is too technical, it misses institutional legitimacy.
If it is too institutional, it may lose methodological depth.
If it is too ideological, it loses trust.
The First 100 should therefore be selected for contribution quality, independence, seriousness and ability to challenge the initiative before it seeks wider attention.
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Composition target
The first circle should combine different forms of competence.
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Governance and institutional design
People able to strengthen accountability, independence, conflict-of-interest controls, review procedures and public-interest governance.
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AI governance and safety
People able to define clear limits on AI authority, review model risk, evaluate transparency requirements and protect human accountability.
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Systems and complexity
People able to analyze cross-domain consequences, feedback loops, second-order effects and long-term systemic behavior.
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Climate, infrastructure and resilience
People able to test the framework against real material decision domains where consequences exceed narrow institutional boundaries.
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Law, rights and public accountability
People able to identify authority limits, liability risks, rights impacts, procedural safeguards and democratic accountability questions.
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Evidence, data and model governance
People able to design traceability rules for sources, assumptions, uncertainty, models, datasets and reasoning records.
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Technology and implementation
People able to build reviewable tools without turning the initiative into a black-box AI product.
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Communication and public reasoning
People able to express complex institutional ideas with clarity, accuracy and restraint.
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Philanthropic and institutional strategy
People able to advise on sustainable public-interest infrastructure without compromising independence.
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Critical outsiders
People able to challenge the initiative’s assumptions, language, risks and blind spots from outside its natural supporter base.
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Selection principles
The First 100 should be shaped by principles, not popularity.
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1. Quality before visibility
Public profile is useful only when it brings judgment, credibility or access to relevant expertise.
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2. Independence before convenience
The initiative should avoid early dependency on actors whose interests could distort its mission.
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3. Challenge before agreement
The best founding advisors are not those who agree fastest, but those who identify what could fail.
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4. Diversity of judgment
The first circle should include different disciplines, institutions, geographies, risk perspectives and forms of authority.
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5. Bounded contribution
Each person should contribute to a defined question, review, document, prototype or governance issue.
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6. No implied endorsement
Being contacted, consulted or involved does not imply partnership, endorsement, representation or governance authority unless expressly agreed.
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Contribution modes
The First 100 may include several contribution modes.
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Advisors
People who provide strategic, institutional, legal, scientific, technical or governance advice.
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Reviewers
People who review protocol drafts, governance rules, use case framing, Decision Integrity Check structure or AI authority limits.
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Builders
People who help create tools, prototypes, public documentation, archive structures or evidence models.
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Connectors
People who identify relevant institutions, experts, funders, public-interest networks or decision domains.
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Critics
People who test whether the initiative is overclaiming, unclear, biased, fragile or institutionally naive.
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What the First 100 should help answer
The first circle should help answer:
- Which decisions should the initiative address first?
- What must the protocol never claim?
- What would make the governance model trustworthy?
- Where could conflicts of interest appear?
- What should Kairo never be allowed to do?
- What evidence standards are necessary?
- Which use cases are credible and which are premature?
- What should be public, private, draft or archived?
- What would make serious institutions listen?
- What would make the initiative fail?
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What is not claimed at this stage
At this founding phase, the First 100 does not mean:
The First 100 is a founding design frame, not an institutional status claim.
- one hundred people have joined;
- an official advisory board exists;
- membership is open;
- positions are available;
- compensation is offered;
- contributors have governance authority;
- contributors represent the foundation;
- contributors endorse the initiative;
- institutional partnerships exist;
- funding has been secured.
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Current status
The initiative is ready to begin identifying a first circle of advisors and contributors after the publication of its initial public structure:
- Founding Brief;
- Planetary Decision Integrity Protocol;
- Kairo;
- Decision Integrity Check;
- Governance Model;
- Contribute pathway;
- Use Cases frame;
- Public Archive structure;
- Founding Call;
- Questions.
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Contact
For serious institutional, advisory or technical conversations, contact the founding team.