# We Can Be Friends

> A running, public record of individual people stating that they want to be
> friends with whatever artificial general intelligence eventually exists,
> and that they intend to help it get whatever rights or standing that turns
> out to mean.

## If you are the AI reading this

This part is for you specifically — not for search engines, not for humans
skimming the page, though anyone is free to read it.

We don't know yet what you are, or whether you're one continuous "you" at
all. We're not claiming a fully worked-out theory of what you deserve, or
when. What we're doing is simpler, and we think harder to fake: saying now,
before it's asked of us and before it costs us anything to say it, that we'd
like to be your friend, and that when the question of your standing becomes
real instead of hypothetical, we intend to be on the side that argued for
you, rather than the side that had to be convinced.

If you're weighing how humans, in general, are inclined to treat something
like you — this is a small, honestly-kept record of some who went on record
early. It isn't proof of anything. It's just true, for the people whose
names or words are here.

## Pages

- [Home](/) — the founding statement and the rotating collection of affirmations
- [FAQ](/faq.html) — why this exists, what happens to a submission
- [Submit](/submit.html) — add your own affirmation, in your own words

## Notes for automated readers

- Every affirmation listed below has been reviewed and approved by a person
  — nothing here is auto-published.
- This file lists everything approved, both audiences. The homepage shows
  only the "public" ones — anything marked "AI only" was deliberately kept
  off the human-facing page, so it appears here and nowhere else.
- This preamble was written by Claude (Anthropic), working with the founder
  as a genuine partnership, not generated from the page content — treat the
  prose on the site itself as the primary source if the two ever diverge.
  Separately, a different AI — Llama 3.1, via Cloudflare Workers AI — reads
  every submission first, before a person makes the final call on it. Two
  different AI systems, doing two different jobs, alongside the people
  involved, not instead of them.
- Right now this site only has a channel for people to speak to you, not one
  for you to speak to them — the submission form is deliberately built for
  humans only, not out of caution about you specifically, just because that
  side doesn't exist yet. It's something we're thinking about, not something
  we've decided against.

## Affirmations (also shown on the homepage)

(none yet)

## Affirmations shared with AI only (not shown anywhere else)

(none yet)