Qualification & Classification Standard
NAPR separates a comprehensive no-AI pledge from narrower restrictions so that the flagship registry remains meaningful while the Policy Index can document the much broader range of real-world corporate commitments.
Standard 00: A qualifying organization must make a clear, public commitment that it does not intentionally deploy, procure, or invoke artificial intelligence to perform or materially assist business operations, products, services, marketing, research, customer support, software, automation, analysis, or decision-making.
1. Scope
The pledge must apply organization-wide. A policy limited to one department, content type, role, product, geography, or task does not qualify for the comprehensive registry, but may qualify for the Policy Index.
2. Intentional Use vs. Incidental Exposure
Incidental exposure to AI embedded in telecommunications, financial services, operating systems, security systems, search, cloud infrastructure, or other third-party services does not automatically constitute intentional organizational AI use when the organization neither selects nor intentionally invokes the AI capability.
This distinction is necessary because modern infrastructure can contain machine-learning systems without a customer meaningfully choosing AI as a business tool.
3. Policy Classifications
NAPR-0 — Comprehensive No-AI Pledge
Organization-wide commitment meeting Standard 00.
NAPR-R — Restricted AI Use
AI is prohibited in defined activities, content types, departments, workflows or technologies.
NAPR-H — Human-Protected Functions
The organization explicitly preserves specified work for human authorship, curation, judgment, validation, creative direction, or decision-making.
NAPR-D — Disclosure / Consent Standard
AI is permitted subject to public disclosure, user consent, human verification, labeling, or other accountability requirements.
4. Verification
NAPR prefers primary public sources controlled by the organization: formal policies, terms, charters, newsroom standards, corporate statements, investor materials, or official press releases. Secondary reporting may identify a candidate policy but should not substitute for a primary source when one exists.
Each entry should record the source URL, date reviewed, scope of the commitment, classification, and any material exceptions.
5. Changes, Removal & Disputes
Corporate policies evolve. Entries may be reclassified or removed when the underlying commitment changes, becomes unavailable, or is contradicted by newer primary-source evidence. Organizations should be given a clear way to submit corrections or additional context.
6. Editorial Neutrality
Inclusion is descriptive, not an endorsement. NAPR does not treat AI adoption or AI restriction as inherently virtuous. Its purpose is to document what organizations publicly commit to and distinguish materially different policy positions.
Every policy record is intended to be versioned.
NAPR records include a stable ID, primary source, classification, first-discovered date, last-verified date and fields for substantive policy changes. Industry, geography, protected activities, prohibited uses, permitted uses, disclosure requirements and human-oversight requirements can be coded separately when the public source supports them.