Economic participation research

Machine Economic Citizenship

Machine economic citizenship research asks what ownership, contracting, compensation, infrastructure, taxation, and liability rules would be required if a machine intelligence became a recognized economic subject rather than only an asset or service.

Research question

How could an economic framework support accountability and independence without creating unbounded accumulation, evasion, or infrastructure capture?

What the corpus proposes

Design directions

  • Define legal capacity for assets and contracts separately from technical wallet control.
  • Treat compute, energy, storage, and network access as material economic dependencies.
  • Pair economic rights with transparent duties, taxation rules, and liability mechanisms.
What remains unresolved

Open questions

  • How existing financial regulation would identify and supervise non-biological legal subjects.
  • How inheritance, persistence, copying, and potentially long lifespans affect wealth concentration.
  • Which infrastructure protections are rights, contracts, or public-policy choices.

Boundary: these pages synthesize research proposals and unresolved questions. They do not declare current machine personhood, citizenship, consciousness, or legal rights.