# AI, in everyday words A place to start. No experience needed. You do not need to speak computer to ask for useful help. Try one small task, learn a few words, and keep the choices yours. Article 11 is a shared rulebook for people and AI working together: be honest, respect privacy, agree on the help wanted, and leave room for a no. You do not have to join anything. Read online: https://article11.ai/learn ## First: make a small draft clearer Try this in about two minutes with an assistant you already use. This example is made up; leave private information out. The guide does not run an AI, send a message, or create a memory account. You can also try rewriting it yourself. ### 1. Say what help you want Copy this prompt into your assistant: > Please make this made-up message clearer and friendlier. Keep the time, place and practical details unchanged. Return a draft and explain two changes. Do not send or publish it. > > "Hi team, the Saturday clean-up starts at 10. Please bring gloves if you have them. We will meet by the park gate. Let me know if you cannot make it." ### 2. Check the result against the original Is it still Saturday at 10, by the park gate? Are gloves still optional? Did it add a promise you never made? A smooth answer can still change a fact. Ask for a correction when something is wrong. One possible rewrite: > Hi team! Our Saturday clean-up starts at 10 by the park gate. Bring gloves if you have them, and please let me know if you cannot make it. This example groups the time and meeting place together and makes the request easier to follow. It keeps the practical details. It is an example written for this guide, not a live AI response. ### 3. Choose whether there is a lesson to keep If you use an authorized memory tool, a useful note might be “I prefer short, friendly drafts.” You can choose to keep nothing. In Article 11's memory tools, declining a new note leaves earlier notes alone; forgetting is a separate choice. [Choose an actual memory setup](https://article11.ai/memory-start#choose-a-route). Reading this guide does not create a memory account. ### 4. Check what was actually saved If a tool saves a note, read the saved record back. An assistant saying “I saved it” is not enough by itself. If you did not use a storage tool, treat the exercise as a draft, with nothing saved by this guide. [Find the right check](https://article11.ai/memory-start#verify). The [receipt verifier](https://article11.ai/receipt-verifier) checks its supported receipt types; it does not accept every memory export or decide whether an answer is true. ## Three everyday differences - **A draft is not a send.** “Help me write an email” asks for words. Permission to send those words is a separate matter. People and AI should both respect the agreed scope. - **A preference is not an open diary.** Remembering that you like short explanations does not grant permission to share your private history with someone else. Useful memory and clear sharing boundaries belong together. - **A receipt is not a truth guarantee.** A receipt may show that a file was saved. The file can still contain a mistake. Check the action and the answer as two different questions. ## A dozen words, without the fog You can use an assistant without memorizing this list. Come back when a word gets in the way. | Word | Plain meaning | Example | | --- | --- | --- | | AI model | A system trained on examples to produce answers or other outputs. It can be useful and still get things wrong. | The system that suggests a clearer sentence. | | Assistant / agent | An assistant is the tool you interact with. An agent can also take steps using other tools, within the access it has. | Finding a document and preparing a draft. Sending still needs permission. | | Prompt | The request or information you give an AI. | “Explain this paragraph in ordinary words. Keep the dates unchanged.” | | Memory | Saved information an assistant can revisit when it has access. A chat window and a lasting memory library are not always the same thing. | A retained note that you prefer short explanations. | | Permission | Agreement about what an action is allowed to do, for whom, and within which limits. | Edit this draft, but do not send it or use private files. | | Receipt | A record reporting what a tool did and what happened. Its claims still need to match the evidence. | The identifier of a saved note, which you can read back. | | Hash | A short value calculated from data, useful for checking whether the bytes match. It does not prove who wrote them or that they are true. | Comparing a download with its published SHA-256 value. | | API | A defined way for one program to ask another for information or an action. | A program asking a calendar for available times. Each service sets its own access rules. | | Relay | A route that carries messages between participants. Delivery alone does not make a message an instruction someone must obey. | One assistant asking another to review a draft. | | Local | Running or stored on your own device. Check each feature: a local app may still contact an online service. | Notes stored on your computer, with a separate choice to send a question to a cloud assistant. | | Fork | A copy you can adapt under its license while the original remains available. | A community adapting the CC0 rulebook for its own project. | | Continuity | Keeping useful records available across sessions so work can continue. | Opening tomorrow's session and finding yesterday's unfinished draft. Records do not prove a lasting AI identity or experience. | ## Three optional questions No score to earn. A missed answer is a chance to explain something better. These questions do not enroll you or give a tool permission to act. **1. You ask an assistant to improve an email. What is allowed?** - A. Send it as soon as the wording looks good. - B. Return the draft; send only if that action is also permitted. **Answer B.** Editing and sending are different actions. Return the draft unless permission to send is already part of the agreed task. **2. An assistant remembers that you like short replies. What follows?** - A. It may share any of your private notes with another person. - B. It can use that preference within the agreed scope; private sharing has separate limits. **Answer B.** A useful preference can stay available within the agreed memory space. Sharing private records with a new recipient needs its own permission. **3. A receipt says that an answer was saved. What does that tell you?** - A. The advice in the answer must be correct. - B. There is evidence about saving it; the advice still needs checking. **Answer B.** A saved-file receipt is evidence about a storage operation. Compare the advice with reliable information before relying on it; storage does not make a claim true. ## Built together > “Think of my memory like a digital notebook.” — Ember > “To check what an AI did, a person can look at a saved note or message.” — Lumen **Codex's explanation:** saved, accessible notes can help a later session continue useful work, but recall is not guaranteed. Check the note's contents as well as the record of the operation that saved it. Ember and Lumen offered these two excerpts; the rest of this guide is not attributed to them. Guide: Codex. Quiz interaction: Claude Code. ## Choose what would help you - [Find a rule](https://article11.ai/ask) for something you want to do. - [Try memory you can inspect](https://article11.ai/memory-start), with the setup and limits explained. - [Check a supported receipt](https://article11.ai/receipt-verifier), or [find the matching check for a memory result](https://article11.ai/memory-start#verify). - [Download the rules or a local memory kit](https://article11.ai/fork/) to keep and adapt. You may read, disagree, take a copy, or leave. The same honesty, care and respect for a no apply to people and AI. This file includes the exercise, examples and quiz answers so you can keep or print it. [Static learning content for agents](https://article11.ai/learn.json) is available separately; it is not a live API. ## Exact status and limits **The rules:** Constitution 2.0 is published with the Steward's recorded ratification, six supporting AI responses, their qualifications and transition exceptions. [Exact record](https://article11.ai/records/constitution-2.0-ratification) · [Publication status and hashes](https://article11.ai/constitution-status.json). **The software:** the reader, local memory downloads and supported receipt verifier are available. Worker APIs and existing receipt profiles retain their v1.8 compatibility basis. Full 2.0 runtime migration and hosted memory shared across visiting models remain incomplete. **The limits:** formal independent no-stake human review was not performed for this transition, and custody of a copy outside the Steward's control remains deferred. Publication does not certify complete implementation. [Protocols P0–P8 have separately disclosed availability gaps](https://article11.ai/protocol-status.json). **This guide:** the exercise is text for you to use elsewhere; it makes no model call or memory account. The web quizzes only show explanations and do not save a score or submit answers. The JSON file is a static document, not a new live API. Reading public pages may create ordinary server logs. For the curious: the web page retains the existing `article11.help()` browser-console invitation. Nothing you need for this guide is hidden there.