Minimal Ethical Governance (MEG) is the successor to the former Minimum Ethics Code (MEC).

This directory preserves superseded MEC and MEG materials for historical, comparative, and reproducibility purposes.

The documents record the evolution from the former Minimum Ethics Code / Minimal Ethical Code terminology to Minimal 
Ethical Governance, including early specifications, case studies, experimental MEG Address certificates, challenge 
prompts, audit demonstrations, and implementation roadmaps. The documents also preserve historical naming variations, 
including “Minimum Ethics Code” and “Minimal Ethical Code”.

These materials are not current normative references. Some certificates, identifiers, signatures, URLs, audit records, 
and institutional entities contained in the archived demonstrations were illustrative or experimental and must not be 
interpreted as currently valid credentials or operational infrastructure.

The current normative framework consists of MEG1 (MEG v5.0) and MEG2, together with their current executive summary, 
core synthesis, case studies, and theoretical foundations.

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PUBLIC RECORDS

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9 July 2026 — Current MEG framework (MEG1 + MEG2)


Theoretical Foundations of MEG:
From Information Gravity to Cognitive Governance
https://zenodo.org/records/21283656


Minimal Ethical Governance:
Executive Summary and Overview
https://zenodo.org/records/21280688


MEG1:
A Technical Standard for Verifiable AI
https://zenodo.org/records/21280680


MEG2:
Legal Governance for AI
https://zenodo.org/records/21280676

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VERSION HISTORY


25 August 2025 — MEC v4.3
The Minimum Ethics Code (MEC) v4.3:
A Universal Technical Standard for Trustworthy AI
https://zenodo.org/records/16938364


28 August 2025 — MEC Evidence Compendium
The Evidence for the Minimum Ethics Code (MEC):
A Compendium of Case Studies and Operational Demonstrations
https://zenodo.org/records/16972987


4 September 2025 — MEG v4.5
Minimal Ethical Governance MEG
(Successor to MEC — Minimum Ethical Code)
https://zenodo.org/records/17055906


22 September 2025 — MEG paper
Minimal Ethical Governance (MEG) for Artificial Intelligence
https://ssrn.com/abstract=5440994