Provisional Founding Charter
Global Center for Economic Action Research

The Global Center for Economic Action Research (GCEAR) originates from the need to investigate how artificial intelligence systems progress from possessing technical capabilities to performing actions with actual economic consequences, and what forms of authority, delegation, governance, execution controls, measurement, and outcome verification such actions may require.

The foundational research premise is that the technical capability to perform an economic action does not, by itself, confer legitimate authority to perform that action. Likewise, successful technical execution does not necessarily establish that the intended economic outcome has been achieved or that the process leading to it was properly governed.

Accordingly, the initiative seeks to build a documented scientific and engineering foundation for understanding the economics of AI-driven action through research questions, testable hypotheses, controlled experiments, measurable outcomes, and evidence suitable for review, replication, and independent verification.

The Center is conceived as a proposed research initiative with an international outlook. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is its intended initial experimental base, with the aim of developing scientific and institutional collaboration across borders, without presuming that legal establishment, partnerships, or licenses have been secured before they are formally documented.

This Charter establishes the principles governing the initiative's development, its research priorities, and its preliminary operating framework. Decisions concerning future engineering architectures and the final legal structure shall remain contingent on evidence and demonstrated needs.

The Global Center for Economic Action Research (GCEAR) is a proposed research initiative dedicated to studying the economics of AI-driven action and investigating the scientific, engineering, and institutional requirements for governing, executing, measuring, and verifying economic actions performed by artificial intelligence systems.

Its research scope includes the relationships among technical capability, economic agency, authority, delegation, governance, execution, and economic outcomes, with particular attention to the distinction between a system's capacity to act, the authority delegated to it, and the actions it is actually permitted to execute.

The initiative's mandate encompasses:

1. Formulating research questions and hypotheses concerning Economic Action.
2. Designing, conducting, and documenting controlled experiments.
3. Developing metrics, methodologies, and evaluation frameworks.
4. Studying existing engineering solutions and comparing them with alternative designs.
5. Producing evidence suitable for review, reproducibility, and independent verification.
6. Determining the requirements that may justify the development of new protocols, engineering components, or infrastructure.

To contribute to building a documented scientific and engineering foundation for understanding the economics of AI-driven action and identifying the requirements for its measurable, reviewable, and verifiable governance and execution.

This vision seeks to advance a more precise understanding of the relationship between the development of AI capabilities and the expansion of AI-driven economic action, while identifying the controls needed to connect delegated authority to actual execution and verifiable outcomes.

The vision does not presume that any particular engineering solution or independent infrastructure layer is inherently necessary. Determining whether such a need exists is itself a research objective.

To design and conduct structured research programs and controlled experiments, develop measurement and evaluation methodologies, and establish international scientific collaborations that help clarify the relationships among technical capability, economic agency, authority, delegation, governance, execution, and economic outcomes.

The mission shall be pursued by translating conceptual questions into testable hypotheses, hypotheses into documented experiments, experiments into reviewable evidence, and evidence into research and engineering decisions proportionate to the strength and limitations of the findings.

The initiative also seeks to support independent verification and replication across different models, environments, and institutions, wherever resources and experimental designs permit.

The initiative pursues the following objectives:

1. Establish a Research Foundation: Develop clearly defined and testable research questions and hypotheses concerning the economics of AI-driven action.
2. Investigate Authority and Delegation: Examine how permissions are granted, constrained, modified, and revoked, and identify the boundaries beyond which execution becomes unauthorized.
3. Develop Measurement Methods: Design scenarios and metrics for evaluating economic actions, their consequences, and their associated risks.
4. Conduct Engineering Evaluations: Compare existing solutions, protocols, and alternative designs under documented and reviewable test conditions.
5. Build an Evidence Base: Document positive and negative findings, failures, limitations, and sources of uncertainty.
6. Enable Independent Verification: Prepare research outputs that qualified third parties can review and independently test.
7. Advance International Collaboration: Seek cooperation with universities, laboratories, research centers, and relevant institutional partners.
8. Inform Engineering Decisions: Determine whether the findings justify developing new components, protocols, or independent infrastructure.
9. Inform Investment Priorities: Link funding requirements to measurable research milestones and clearly defined uncertainty-reduction objectives.

The initiative adopts the following research cycle:

Each experiment shall be documented through a record that includes, as applicable:

• A unique experiment identifier and a documented version of the experimental design.
• The research question and hypothesis being tested.
• A description of the experimental environment and the system or model under evaluation.
• Test conditions, permissions, constraints, and baseline.
• Recorded events, data sources, and data-collection methods.
• Metrics, calculation rules, and predefined evaluation criteria wherever practicable.
• Actual results, including failures and unexpected outcomes.
• Limitations, sources of uncertainty, and potential threats to the validity of conclusions.
• The decision resulting from the experiment and the proposed next research step.

Observed data shall be distinguished from interpretations and from the conclusions that the evidence supports.

The methodology shall prioritize reproducibility and the ability to review the steps connecting experimental records to measurements and subsequent decisions.

Findings shall not be generalized beyond the environments and conditions tested except to the extent justified by additional evidence.

The initiative commits to the following principles:

1. Hypotheses and predictions shall not be presented as established findings.
2. Failures and results that contradict expectations shall not be concealed.
3. Experimental observations, interpretations, and conclusions shall be clearly distinguished.
4. Limitations, sources of uncertainty, and assumptions affecting the results shall be disclosed.
5. Changes to experimental designs, metrics, and evaluation criteria shall be documented.
6. Independent review shall be pursued whenever suitable expertise and resources are available.
7. Results shall not be generalized without sufficient supporting evidence.
8. No claims shall be made concerning standards, accreditation, patents, partnerships, or independent validation without appropriate documentation or evidence.
9. Relevant legal and ethical requirements governing test environments, data, and systems shall be observed.
10. Data, confidential information, and the legitimate rights of participating parties shall be protected in accordance with applicable legal and contractual arrangements.

The Center is proposed to be developed through a research and institutional relationship with Ouamarkom™ (أوامركم™), enabling the potential use of relevant research frameworks, experimental environments, and engineering initiatives concerning the economics of AI-driven action.

The frameworks and research initiatives proposed for use and evaluation include:

• CE-AI: A research and analytical framework for studying the economics of AI-driven action.
• GEAB: A proposed framework or program for designing benchmark scenarios and evaluating economic actions.
• Smart Hand: A controlled experimental environment for testing, measuring, and documenting governed economic actions.
• Economic Action Engineering: A proposed research and engineering area concerned with the design and execution of governed economic actions.
• CEP: Protocol specifications under development and evaluation, intended to investigate the relationship between delegation, governance, and actual execution boundaries.

These frameworks and initiatives shall be treated according to their actual development status. Their inclusion in this Charter does not establish that they are complete, formally adopted, or generally validated.

The relationship between the Center and Ouamarkom, including intellectual property rights, data, source code, tools, inventions, publication rights, licensing, use, scientific publication, funding, and contracting, shall be governed by written agreements defining the rights, obligations, and responsibilities of the relevant parties.

Arrangements for publishing findings, sharing data, and protecting confidential information shall balance scientific integrity and transparency with the protection of applicable legal and contractual rights.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the intended initial experimental base for the initiative, providing a proposed location for research activities and the exploration of scientific and institutional collaboration.

This approach aims to:

1. Identify suitable environments for initial experiments.
2. Explore collaboration opportunities with universities, laboratories, research centers, and institutional organizations.
3. Develop test scenarios that can be independently repeated.
4. Seek opportunities to compare results with research organizations outside the Kingdom.
5. Document differences across environments, models, and experimental conditions.
6. Build an evidence base for assessing the extent to which findings can be generalized.

Saudi Arabia is an intended initial experimental base, not an exclusive domain for scientific validation and not evidence, in itself, that partnerships or operational arrangements are already in place.

International collaboration remains an objective that the initiative seeks to achieve. No partnership, agreement, or institutional support shall be announced as established unless it has been documented and verified.

Proposed activities within the Kingdom shall be subject to applicable legal and regulatory requirements, according to their nature and the entity responsible for carrying them out.

The initial phase aims to produce reviewable research outputs, including:

1. A research plan defining questions, hypotheses, and priorities.
2. Documented experimental protocols and clearly identified versions of the designs used.
3. Metrics and evaluation criteria that are defined and interpretable.
4. Documented experimental records and datasets suitable for review, subject to applicable data-protection requirements and rights.
5. Reports of findings and engineering comparisons linked to supporting evidence.
6. A record of research decisions, modifications, limitations, and failures.
7. Evidence packages that trace the relationship between experiments, data, metrics, and conclusions.
8. A final report identifying research directions supported by the evidence and those requiring further testing, modification, or discontinuation.

Progress during this phase shall be evaluated according to the quality of deliverables, completeness of documentation, reviewability, and achievement of defined experimental objectives.

Progress shall not be measured solely by the number of documents, models, or software components produced, but by their capacity to reduce uncertainty and provide evidence that supports research and development decisions.

The final report shall specify what was actually accomplished, what remains incomplete, the reasons for any gaps, the resources required for the next phase, and the decisions justified by the findings.

This Charter shall be reviewed following the commencement of initial implementation or whenever a material change occurs in the research scope, institutional structure, intellectual property arrangements, or requirements of partners and funders.

The review process shall include:

1. Assessing the continued relevance of research objectives and priorities.
2. Reviewing methodologies and metrics in light of available findings.
3. Updating the allocation of responsibilities and authorities when necessary.
4. Documenting changes, their rationale, and their implications.
5. Identifying the new version, its date, and its status.
6. Distinguishing research-related revisions from changes requiring legal or institutional review.

Previous versions and a revision history shall be retained to enable the evolution of the Charter and the decisions underlying its amendments to be traced.

This document constitutes Version 0.1 of the provisional founding working charter of the Global Center for Economic Action Research (GCEAR). It has been prepared to organize the initiative's institutional and research development and to clarify its proposed principles, objectives, and scope.

The issuance of this version does not constitute a declaration that legal establishment has been completed, formal institutional operations have commenced, a license or accreditation has been obtained, or documented partnerships have been established.

All future legal, institutional, and operational arrangements remain subject to the relevant decisions, procedures, and supporting documentation.

End of Provisional Founding Charter - Version 0.1