In the hierarchy

1. Part III: Governance, Power & Existential Concerns
2. D19. Rights, Law & Justice
3. 19.5 Emerging rights & personhood questions

Virtues and principles to explore

Held as inquiry, not as a verdict.

• Justice

  Justice

  Who is heard, who is harmed, and who decides.

• Accountability

  Trust

  Name who holds the consequence before it is needed.

• Dignity

  Center principle

  Every person is a protagonist, not a data point.

Starter questions

Written to probe curiosity and learning, not accusation.

1. 01How would we know we were getting this wrong? What would we observe, without blaming a person?
2. 02What would trustworthiness look like here: what we do, what we say, and the belief others form?
3. 03What would it look like if we held “Data-agency rights” with proportion rather than alarm?
4. 04If we named this complication in advance, what small, reversible step would let us learn?

Also on this branch

• Rights against automated decision-making9
• Right to know one is talking to AI9
• AI personhood proposals3
• Corporate personhood analogies3
• Moral status of digital minds3
• Adversarial testing rights for defendants9

Frameworks and sources

• EU AI Act — high-level summaryregulation
• Council of Europe AI Conventionregulation
• International humanitarian law (IHL)framework

  The body of law that governs the conduct of armed conflict and the protection of people who are not fighting, which applies to AI used in or for conflict.