Decency Meter
Decency Meter is the public-facing pulse check built on top of the DBaD framework. It connects everyday moral intuitions to a larger effort around computable ethics, AI governance, human decision review, and interpretable control systems.
Decency Meter is the public signal layer; DBaD is the underlying ethical control layer and governance model.
DBaD governs decisions across time, not just at the moment they are made.
Built for the public, researchers, governance teams, and implementation partners exploring practical AI oversight.
64% say “Act with transparency”
Decency Meter is the public signal layer built on top of the DBaD ethics framework. What starts as a short civility survey feeds a broader effort to make ethical reasoning more transparent, testable, and useful for AI governance.
As AI systems make or influence real-world decisions, organizations need more than policy documents. They need operational models that help determine whether a proposed action should proceed, be modified, or be blocked.
DBaD is being developed as one such model: interpretable enough to explain, compact enough to test, and practical enough to sit beside real systems.
DBaD began as a compact rule about decency. It has evolved into a formal, testable model designed to support ethical reasoning, AI governance, and transparent control systems.
The five measurable dimensions are harm, consent, intent, proportionality, and transparency.
DBaD is being developed to help determine whether proposed actions should proceed, be modified, or be blocked.
| DBaD factor | AI governance equivalent |
|---|---|
| Harm | Risk, safety, and impact scoring |
| Consent | User autonomy, permissions, and data rights |
| Intent | Objective alignment and misuse prevention |
| Proportionality | Fairness, policy fit, and appropriate response |
| Transparency | Explainability, auditability, and reviewability |
AI deployment is accelerating across infrastructure, healthcare, finance, defense, education, and public services. Policy language alone is not enough. Organizations need operational models for ethical review.
DBaD is an attempt to provide a simple, interpretable framework for that purpose, bridging abstract ethics and executable review logic.
DBaD is being developed as an open, testable ethical framework for AI and human decision systems. We welcome interest from researchers, institutions, implementation partners, and organizations exploring practical AI governance.
Decency Meter is the public signal layer. The ethics portal holds the executive summary, methodology, papers, demo evaluator, and API surfaces for the underlying DBaD control layer.
For the public: take the quick test and compare the live pulse.
For researchers: use the full survey, papers, and methodology.
For enterprises: start with the ethics framework and demo evaluator.
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“DBaD sure sounds like a reasonable path!”
— AnonymousTransparency lowers harm by exposing assumptions early. It turns private guesses into public, testable claims.
In the DBaD model, transparency is not fluff. It changes accountability across every other pillar.
Use the quick test for a lightweight public signal, the full survey for deeper research input, and the demo evaluator when you want to see the control-layer framing directly.
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Decency Meter is the public signal layer. DBaD is the underlying ethical control-layer framework. Use the ethics portal for the longer argument: executive summary, methodology, papers, evaluator demo, API docs, version compare, and scenario intake all live there.