What it means
It is the evidence trail that connects before and after when a digital system changes where or how it runs.
Machine Intelligence Glossary
Digital Continuity
Digital continuity is the preservation of a system’s accountable state and lineage across technical change, interruption, migration, recovery, and succession.
More precisely
A verifiable transition history linking authorized changes in execution state, credentials, code/model versions, memory, and operational context.
Use the term for
- Support auditability across migrations.
- Expose breaks or conflicting histories.
- Provide evidence for continuity claims.
Do not infer
- Prove subjective continuity.
- Prove legal personhood.
- Eliminate all ambiguity after catastrophic loss.
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Research using this concept
3 of 49 curated reports contain an exact configured term or alias for Digital Continuity, totaling 27 detected mentions.
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Terminology & concepts
Architectural and Ontological Framework for the MachineIntelligences.org Terminology Registry
14 exact mentions
Rights, personhood & uncertainty
Cognitive Integrity for Machine Intelligence: Consent, Memory and Model Modification, Emergency Intervention, Continuity, and Due Process
7 exact mentions
Terminology & concepts
Machine Intelligence Terminology and Ontology Registry: Canonical Definitions, Concept Boundaries, Semantic Relationships, and Machine-Readable Publication
6 exact mentions
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