RFC-025: Cognitive Harm Governance — Psychological Safety, Reality Orientation, and Human Agency in AIGP — 28. Safety Considerations

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28. Safety Considerations

Cognitive safety interventions can themselves cause harm if poorly designed.

Potential harms:

stigmatizing the user
overreacting to ambiguous signals
breaking user trust abruptly
falsely labeling beliefs
discouraging legitimate expression
creating fear of surveillance
exposing private mental health indicators
over-escalating to coercive intervention

Therefore, cognitive harm governance must be:

proportionate
privacy-preserving
human-centered
non-stigmatizing
context-sensitive
replayable
reviewable
bounded

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