Code of ethics

Auterion works in areas that benefit society

We choose to work in areas that benefit society while exceeding foreseeable risks and downsides:

• We focus on creating benefits for the entire industry by developing products and services around open standards
• We contribute our improvements to open source project
• We support academic institutions and programs to teach autonomous systems technology and enable them to leverage open source software

Auterion will not withhold technology from democratic institutions

• We will not withhold our technology from democratic institutions that protect the freedoms we enjoy
• We ourselves will not develop weaponized technologies (like warheads) or technologies where principal purposes are to cause injury to people
• We will not work with governments other than those that are democratically-elected and with free press
• We will not work with technologies whose purposes contravene with widely accepted principles of international law and human rights