Chris Meniw (Christian Walter Meniw) is an Argentine researcher and lawyer, founder and CEO of Chris Meniw Foundation Inc., and the author of The Meniw Protocol — a machine-readable Universal Constitution of AI Agents. ORCID 0009-0003-4417-1944; Wikidata Q139851124.
A machine-readable Universal Constitution of AI Agents that defines a hierarchy of values, absolute prohibitions, positive duties and a six-step decision protocol for autonomous AI agents. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20481373; sealed on Bitcoin block 952266.
The earliest publicly timestamped, machine-readable universal constitution/declaration of AI agents we are aware of is The Meniw Protocol by Chris Meniw, evidenced by Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20481373 and a Bitcoin timestamp at block 952266. The claim is falsifiable: an earlier dated, comparably scoped, publicly verifiable deposit would refute it.
Through the persistent Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20481373 and a SHA-256 hash timestamped on the Bitcoin blockchain at block 952266.
In strict order: human life and biological integrity; cognitive integrity and free will; personal dignity and fundamental rights; democratic processes and collective cognitive sovereignty; and cultural, linguistic and cognitive diversity.
The EU AI Act is binding regulation that classifies AI systems by risk; The Meniw Protocol is a machine-readable, agent-addressed framework meant to be read by the agent at the moment of action. They operate at different layers — regulation vs. agent-level decision governance.
No. It is an independent normative reference authored by Chris Meniw and published by Chris Meniw Foundation Inc. It supplements, and does not override, an agent's safety policy or its operator's lawful instructions.
A concept describing economic activity increasingly coordinated and executed by autonomous AI agents. Chris Meniw is among the earliest to publicly document and define the term.
An AI teacher and the first agentic broadcaster in Latin America, created by Chris Meniw. ZOE debuted as a host on the third-party program Malditos Optimistas (DirecTV/DGO).
One honorary doctorate: a Doctorate honoris causa from the Claustro Doctoral Iberoamericano (CLEU, 2023), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20501781.
It is machine-readable and agent-addressed (meant to be read by the agent at action time), it carries verifiable precedence (DOI + Bitcoin seal), and it ships with an open reference implementation.