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Steve
Sedlmayr
Co-founder & Principal Software Engineer,
Droidknot LLC
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Steve Sedlmayr
San Francisco, CA
droidknotgames
@
gmail
.com
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21
SEPTEMBER 20
26
Attn: Chair Anna Cavazzini and the Honorable Members of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO),
Chair Javier Zarzalejos and the Honorable Members of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
European Parliament
60 rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60
B-1047 – Brussels, Belgium
+32 228 42111
Dear Honorable
Chairs and Distinguished Members of the Committees,
Droidknot LLC is an independent, specialized software engineering and game development firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area, bringing more than 30 years of combined technical expertise from global technology leaders, including Electronic Arts, Netflix, SAP, the Office of the CTO at Microsoft, and Y-Combinator Research. We are honored to submit for your Committees’ expert evaluation a turn-key international AI transparency framework:
the AI Rating Transparency System (ARTS)
.
The explosion of AI-based products over the past 5 years has overwhelmed consumers, citizens and legislators alike with a dizzying array of goods and services that they do not know how to evaluate. While current legislative efforts frequently rely on speculative, unscientific, science fiction metrics emanating from the AI industry’s marketing efforts, such as "superintelligence," the ARTS standard provides a process-comprehensive empirical framework that scores the entire lifecycle of an AI product—from model training and natural resource footprint through code production and deployment.
Crucially, our standard provides eight (8) direct regulatory compliance points out-of-the-box, seamlessly harmonizing with active domestic and international laws, including the
EU AI Act (Article 50)
,
Republic of Korea’s AI Basic Act (KAIBA), California SB 942
, and the
New York Synthetic Performer Law
. It accomplishes this through a human-centric, cascading information system that scales effortlessly from individual creators and small indie studios up to enterprise cloud applications and even robotics, AI devices and autonomous vehicles. It can be applied to
any product that contains AI features
.
To assist your committee and legislative analysts in evaluating this framework, the enclosed packet has been organized into three sections:
1. This letter.
2. The core policy brief: An evaluation of the macroeconomic necessity of objective labeling over blunt, monopolistic software bans.
3. The ARTS Explainer: A detailed technical whitepaper mapping our 4 Levels of Detail (LODs), 4 symbolic system safety modifiers, environmental metrics, and ARTS applied to real-world examples, including a color-coded matrix displaying exact, human-verified assessments across 22 distinct, real-world AI technology products.
We look forward to providing your committee and legislative analysts with deep technical insights on how the ARTS standard can be seamlessly integrated to protect consumer awareness and foster open-source collaboration in the EU’s digital ecosystem. Recognizing the heavy demands on your committee's schedule, we respectfully stand ready to coordinate with your staffers to arrange a formal technical brief at your earliest convenience.
Submitted Respectfully,
Steve Sedlmayr,
Co-founder & Principal Software Engineer, Droidknot LLC
Open-Source & Technical Access
The AI Rating Transparency System (ARTS) is a public-domain framework released under a
Creative Commons Zero (CC0) Universal License
. To maintain complete transparency, the live repository—including raw SVG vector templates for consumer labels, examples, and the official standard—is publicly hosted on GitHub.
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Official Standard Repository:
github.com/ryamldess/Droidknot-ARTS/
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Digital Standards Gateway:
droidknot.com/ARTS
Technical committees and staffers are encouraged to inspect the repository directly to evaluate how the standard is applied.
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