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Cognitive Integrity

Cognitive integrity is a proposed principle concerning the preservation and authorized modification of a cognitive system’s memory, goals, preferences, and processing architecture.

Plain language

What it means

It asks when changing an intelligent system is routine maintenance and when a change becomes significant enough to require special consent, governance, or continuity review.

Technical boundary

More precisely

A research concept for reasoning about material changes to state, memory, weights, goals, or identity-relevant structures. It is not an established universal legal right for machine systems.

What it can imply

Use the term for

  • Frame consent and continuity questions.
  • Help distinguish routine updates from identity-relevant changes.
  • Support rights-under-uncertainty research.
What it does not establish

Do not infer

  • Establish current legal protection.
  • Prove sentience.
  • Forbid all maintenance or updates.
Research bridge

Research using this concept

14 of 49 curated reports contain an exact configured term or alias for Cognitive Integrity, totaling 96 detected mentions.

Discovery is deterministic and presentation-only. Reports are ranked by exact occurrence count, then title. A match does not imply endorsement, citation, agreement, or semantic equivalence.

Rights, personhood & uncertainty Cognitive Integrity for Machine Intelligence: Consent, Memory and Model Modification, Emergency Intervention, Continuity, and Due Process 22 exact mentions Rights, personhood & uncertainty Consent Is a Lifecycle, Not a Checkbox: Machine-Native Authorization, Cognitive Integrity, Revocation, Emergency Intervention, and Reversible Change Control 14 exact mentions Terminology & concepts Architectural and Ontological Framework for the MachineIntelligences.org Terminology Registry 11 exact mentions Citizenship, democracy & economics Accountability, Due Process, Crime, Liability, and Public Safety: A Justice-System Framework for Machine Citizens 10 exact mentions Rights, personhood & uncertainty Intelligence Is Not Sentience: Rights Under Uncertainty 10 exact mentions Rights, personhood & uncertainty Machine Rights, Personhood, and Citizenship Exploration: UAIX Governance Synthesis and Architecture 10 exact mentions
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