Research topic · 12 reports

Rights, personhood & uncertainty

Evidence-bounded research on possible future machine rights, personhood, consent, cognitive integrity, uncertainty, recognition thresholds, and legal transitions without asserting current legal status.

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This topic groups reports exploring possible future rights, personhood, consent, cognitive integrity, recognition thresholds, moral uncertainty, and changes in legal treatment. These are research questions and proposals, not current rights determinations.

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Rights, personhood & uncertainty

Cognitive Integrity for Machine Intelligence: Consent, Memory and Model Modification, Emergency Intervention, Continuity, and Due Process

Explores cognitive-integrity governance for persistent Machine Intelligence, including modification classification, consent, reversibility, emergency intervention, continuity, and procedural review. The architecture is research/proposal material rather than a deployed rights or personhood determination.

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Concepts found across this topic

These are the highest-coverage configured glossary terms with at least one exact occurrence in this topic’s curated report bodies. Counts are navigation evidence, not a claim about how each report defines or evaluates the concept.

Intelligence Intelligence is the capacity to process information, learn or adapt, reason, and achieve goals across changing conditions. 12 reports · 183 exact mentions Autonomy Autonomy is the degree to which a system can select and execute actions without continuous external direction. 12 reports · 80 exact mentions Machine Intelligence Machine Intelligence is the operational instantiation of cognitive capabilities—such as learning, reasoning, adaptation, or goal achievement—within engineered computational substrates. 12 reports · 73 exact mentions Personhood Personhood is a philosophical, moral, or legal status used to recognize an entity as a subject with interests, standing, duties, or protections. 11 reports · 201 exact mentions Consciousness Consciousness refers to subjective experience—the existence of something it is like to be a system or organism. 11 reports · 183 exact mentions Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence is retained here as the historical research and engineering field, as well as established legal, standards, industry, and search terminology. 11 reports · 72 exact mentions Legal Personhood Legal personhood is a status created or recognized by law that allows an entity to hold specified legal rights, duties, powers, or standing. 10 reports · 65 exact mentions Sentience Sentience is the capacity for valenced experience, such as states experienced as positive or negative. 9 reports · 147 exact mentions Agency Agency is the capacity of a system to initiate actions that influence an environment in pursuit of goals or policies. 9 reports · 70 exact mentions 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. 8 reports · 68 exact mentions

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