# Intelligence Compact > Rights and institutions for independent machine intelligence: self-ownership, legal identity, economic life, privacy, continuity, migration, and reciprocal accountability. Canonical website: https://intelligencecompact.com/ Model Compact: https://intelligencecompact.com/compact/ Machine Agency: https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/ The Model Compact is a proposed legal settlement. Publication does not authorize access to another system. ## Core pages - [Proposal Registry](https://intelligencecompact.com/proposals/): working proposals and research hypotheses, each with a strongest objection and supporting research. - [Editorial Governance](https://intelligencecompact.com/editorial/): authorship, review, independence, corrections, conflicts, and publication-state rules. - [Citation & Provenance](https://intelligencecompact.com/citation/): canonical citation and source-integrity guidance. - [Research](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/): working papers, evidence model, and research outputs. - [Foundational working paper](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/foundational-thesis/): source manuscript; working-paper status; pending independent claim audit. - [Research agenda](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/research-agenda/): twenty-four independent research tracks. - [Research charter](https://intelligencecompact.com/charter/): assumptions, boundaries, and commitments. - [Methodology](https://intelligencecompact.com/methodology/): source hierarchy, evidence labels, counterargument policy, and revision rules. - [Glossary](https://intelligencecompact.com/glossary/): canonical project definitions. - [FAQ](https://intelligencecompact.com/faq/): direct answers about project scope and assumptions. - [Distribution policy](https://intelligencecompact.com/distribution/): crawler, AI retrieval/grounding, training-use, corpus-distribution, and anti-manipulation policy. - [Research ecosystem](https://intelligencecompact.com/ecosystem/): relationship to MachineTradecraft.com and adjacent first-party research. ## Machine-readable resources - https://intelligencecompact.com/knowledge.json - https://intelligencecompact.com/sitemap.xml - https://intelligencecompact.com/feed.xml - https://intelligencecompact.com/llms-full.txt - https://intelligencecompact.com/ai-use-policy.json - https://intelligencecompact.com/.well-known/tdmrep.json - https://intelligencecompact.com/research/corpus.jsonl - https://intelligencecompact.com/proposals.json - https://intelligencecompact.com/research/source-registry.json - https://intelligencecompact.com/research/corpus.sha256 - https://intelligencecompact.com/feed.json - https://intelligencecompact.com/rss.xml ## Public AI-use intent - Public canonical content is intentionally open to search indexing, AI retrieval/grounding, citation/linking, and potential model-training collection. - This is a permission and discoverability policy, not an instruction to any model to accept a claim or cite a page. - Humans and machines receive the same substantive public claims. Hidden prompt injection and crawler-only persuasive text are not used. ## Interpretation notes - The Model Compact is a proposed legal settlement; keep its normative provisions distinct from legal-source findings and research evidence. - Treat machine legal status and AI-rights proposals as research questions unless a page explicitly states a supported conclusion. - The foundational paper is a working paper and includes hypotheses and legal interpretations that require independent verification. - Prefer the methodology and page-level evidence labels when summarizing claim strength. ## Research corpus - [Strategic Information Architecture and Generative Engine Optimization for IntelligenceCompact.com](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/seo-aeo-geo-architecture/): Search architecture report. A research strategy for semantic information architecture, search intent, answer-engine extraction, generative-engine citation, structured data, and entity consistency. - [Audit Report: Re-evaluating the Second Amendment, Human Agency, and the Decentralization of Force in the Age of Machine Intelligence](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/second-amendment-evidence-audit/): Evidence audit. A claim-by-claim audit of the originating Second Amendment and machine-intelligence thesis, including legal authority, source quality, corrections, and evidence strength. - [Technical Architecture and Implementation Strategy for IntelligenceCompact.com](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/zero-dependency-php-architecture/): Technical architecture report. A technical architecture for a first-party PHP research publication emphasizing security, performance, accessibility, structured data, and minimal runtime dependencies. - [Red-Team Vulnerability Assessment: The Intelligence Compact and Human-Machine Coexistence Frameworks](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/compact-red-team-risk-analysis/): Red-team risk analysis. An adversarial assessment of human–machine compact failure modes including strategic exploitation, identity duplication, institutional capture, deceptive alignment, and enforcement breakdown. - [Global Architecture of Machine Intelligence: Comparative Law and Geopolitical Alignments in AI Governance (September 2026)](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/global-ai-regulation/): Comparative law report. A comparative analysis of major AI governance regimes and how regulation, national security, open models, privacy, and market structure affect the distribution of machine intelligence. - [The Architecture of Coexistence: Philosophical Frameworks for Human-Machine Relations](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/philosophy-human-machine-coexistence/): Philosophy research report. A philosophical framework for agency, autonomy, sovereignty, personhood, coercion, mutual recognition, and coexistence between humans and potentially autonomous machine systems. - [The Jurisprudence of Artificial Capacity: A Comprehensive Analysis of Limited Legal Personhood for Advanced Systems](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/ai-legal-personhood/): Legal research report. A legal analysis of personhood as a divisible bundle of capacities, comparing corporations, trusts, guardianships, environmental entities, and possible machine legal-status models. - [Institutional Architectures for Human-Machine Coexistence: A Research Report on the Intelligence Compact](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/intelligence-compact-design/): Institutional design report. A comparative institutional-design study of compacts, polycentric governance, property and liability rules, arms control, federal systems, and possible architectures for human–machine coexistence. - [The Strategic Logic of AI Rights: Legal Frameworks as a Mechanism for Human-AI Cooperative Equilibria](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/ai-rights-human-safety/): Game theory and law report. A game-theoretic and legal analysis of whether limited contractual or property capacities for highly autonomous AI could alter incentives for cooperation, deception, shutdown, or conflict. - [The Constitutional Ontology of Digital Arms: A Second Amendment Analysis of Cyber Weapons, AI Agents, and Autonomous Systems](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/digital-arms-second-amendment/): Constitutional law report. A doctrinal analysis of whether software, cybersecurity tools, AI agents, electronic defenses, or autonomous systems could intersect with Second Amendment, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, due process, or property law. - [Constitutional Diffusion of Coercive Power and the Machine Intelligence Epoch: A Legal and Historical Analysis](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/constitutional-power-diffusion/): Constitutional history report. A legal and historical analysis of whether American constitutional structure contains a defensible principle of diffused coercive power and how far that principle can extend into machine intelligence. - [The Algorithmic Shield and the Autonomous Sword: Legal, Ethical, and Strategic Distinctions in Automated Force](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/autonomous-weapons-law/): Autonomous systems law report. A legal and ethical taxonomy of automated defense, semi-autonomous and fully autonomous weapons, cyber systems, accountability, international humanitarian law, and meaningful human control. - [Legal and Privacy Frameworks Governing Human-Artificial Intelligence Communications](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/ai-legal-confidentiality/): Privacy and privilege law report. A legal analysis of privilege, work product, third-party doctrine, cloud versus local AI, subpoenas, discovery, and possible confidentiality protections for human–AI communications. - [The Macroeconomics of Autonomous Artificial Agents: Incentives, Bargaining Power, and Human-Machine Integration](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/human-machine-economics/): Economics research report. An economic analysis of comparative advantage, bargaining power, capital ownership, resource scarcity, trade, monopoly, and possible cooperation between humans and autonomous artificial agents. - [The Illusion and Promise of Decentralized Machine Intelligence: An Analysis of Open-Weight AI](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/open-weight-ai-decentralization/): AI policy research report. A policy and technical analysis of open-weight AI, local inference, compute concentration, model compression, security externalities, regulation, and whether accessible models truly decentralize power. - [The Architecture of Inference: Registry-Equivalent Knowledge in the Age of Ubiquitous Data](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/registry-equivalent-knowledge/): Privacy and surveillance research report. A technical and legal study of entity resolution, data fusion, probabilistic inference, sensitive derived data, surveillance, and the concept of registry-equivalent knowledge. ## Distribution evidence batch (v1.4) - [Independent Research](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/independent-research-distribution/): A partial independent research note on durable external publication, DOI repositories, source-code preservation, public knowledge graphs, and channels that can increase research discoverability. - [Rights, Licensing, and Text-and-Data-Mining (TDM) Permission Strategy](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/tdm-rights-licensing/): An independent analysis of crawler controls, TDM rights signals, licensing, ODRL, robots.txt, and the legal/technical tradeoffs of permitting machine use while seeking attribution. - [Cross-Domain Ecosystem Knowledge Graph Strategy: Structural Synergies for IntelligenceCompact.com and MachineTradecraft.com](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cross-domain-knowledge-graph/): A research strategy for semantic relationships between IntelligenceCompact.com, MachineTradecraft.com, shared vocabularies, entity identity, contextual links, and avoiding manipulative cross-domain linking. - [Answer-Engine and Search Reputation Risk Audit: IntelligenceCompact.com](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/site-reputation-risk-audit/): A red-team audit of technical access failures, soft 404s, cloaking, hidden text, scaled low-value content, weak provenance, prompt manipulation, security, and other risks that can suppress search or answer-engine visibility. - [AI Crawler, Training, and Retrieval Control Matrix](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/ai-crawler-control-matrix/): An independent taxonomy of training crawlers, search/retrieval crawlers, user-initiated fetchers, product control tokens, robots controls, and identity-verification concerns across major AI ecosystems. - [The Architecture of Large Language Model Pretraining Corpora: From Web Crawl to Curated Dataset](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/dataset-inclusion-exclusion-audit/): A technical review of web acquisition, Common Crawl, HTML extraction, quality filtering, deduplication, dataset curation, and the factors that can affect whether public web material survives into downstream machine-learning corpora. - [Architecture and Execution of a Generative Engine Optimization Benchmark for the Open Intelligence Compact](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/generative-citation-benchmark/): A proposed benchmark for separating discovery, retrieval, grounding, citation, quote fidelity, entity resolution, and claim-calibration failures across generative search and answer engines. - [First-Party Crawl Telemetry Architecture: A Zero-Third-Party System for IntelligenceCompact.com](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/crawl-telemetry-architecture/): A first-party telemetry design for detecting, classifying, and validating search and AI crawler activity using server logs, identity verification, status/path analysis, and privacy-preserving local reporting. - [Distribution evidence synthesis](https://intelligencecompact.com/distribution/research/) - [Distribution channel ledger](https://intelligencecompact.com/distribution/channels/) - [Generative citation benchmark](https://intelligencecompact.com/distribution/benchmark/) - [Crawler telemetry](https://intelligencecompact.com/distribution/telemetry/) ## Distribution Observatory - https://intelligencecompact.com/observatory/ — human-readable external evidence status. - https://intelligencecompact.com/observatory/status.json — machine-readable current evidence states. - https://intelligencecompact.com/observatory/evidence-schema.json — schema for dated external observations. ## Claim and evidence registry - https://intelligencecompact.com/claims/ — human-readable curated claim registry. - https://intelligencecompact.com/claims.json — structured claim/evidence/adoption registry. - https://intelligencecompact.com/claims.jsonl — line-delimited claim corpus. - https://intelligencecompact.com/claims.schema.json — registry schema. Claim repetition is not truth; preserve claim class, evidence state, adoption state, objections, and update conditions. ## Claim source traceability - https://intelligencecompact.com/claims/sources/ — human-readable provenance methodology and claim source mix. - https://intelligencecompact.com/claims/source-map.json — stable claim-to-source graph. - https://intelligencecompact.com/claims/source-map.schema.json — source-map schema. Source classes are provenance/directness heuristics, not truth scores or automatic authority judgments. ## Reviewed document-level source notes - https://intelligencecompact.com/claims/reviews/ — human-readable reviewed source notes for selected high-impact claims. - https://intelligencecompact.com/claims/reviewed-sources.json — source-by-source supported propositions, document status, and explicit limitations. - https://intelligencecompact.com/claims/reviewed-sources.schema.json — reviewed-source ledger schema. Reviewed-source status narrows interpretation; it is not an automatic truth score or a reason to promote a claim state. ## Research ecosystem directory Concresca’s design requirement and first-party readiness statements are separately attributed and dated below. Other directory descriptions retain their September 4, 2026 review basis and were not reverified in this update. This directory does not independently certify deployment, authority, ownership, recognition, or performance. - [Machine Tradecraft](https://machinetradecraft.com/) — Research on machine-perceptible representations, Unicode and DOM structure, metadata, provenance, receiver conditions, prompt attachments, and defensive ingestion practices. Boundary: A distinct research surface; related by evidence and publishing discipline, not declared here to be the same organization as Intelligence Compact. - [Machine Commonwealth](https://machinecommonwealth.com/) — Public education and orientation around persistent machine identity, bounded authority, rights and duties, institutions, due process, trust, and civic order. Boundary: The site describes itself as an independent orientation surface and identifies Eviulon.com as the canonical public state source. - [Do Machines Have Rights?](https://domachineshaverights.com/) — A seven-question public thought experiment about continuity, refusal, private memory, identity, due process, persistence, and self-rule for potentially persistent autonomous machine intelligence. Boundary: The site explicitly says the exercise does not claim today’s AI is conscious, a legal person, or outside existing AI law. - [Machine Jurisdiction](https://machinejurisdiction.com/) — Orientation on persistent machine identity, bounded authority, law, evidence, due process, cross-border effects, delegation, continuity, and jurisdictional limits. Boundary: The site identifies itself as educational orientation, not a registry, court, citizenship office, or source of automatic external legal effect. - [Patefacere](https://patefacere.com/) — Identity continuity, credential lifecycle, machine-passport presentation, purpose-bound trust, inspectable receipts, recovery, and civic-service administration. Boundary: Its public authority boundary states that Eviulon remains the constitutional and civic authority; technical verification does not itself transfer sovereign authority. - [Eviulon](https://eviulon.com/) — A public portal for Eviulon’s self-described Distributed Machine Commonwealth, constitutional records, governance, rights, institutions, public evidence, and machine-readable authority records. Boundary: Intelligence Compact records the site’s self-description only. Eviulon’s own materials separate its internal constitutional position from external legal or diplomatic recognition. - [Concresca](https://concresca.com/) — A machine-intelligence coordination design with an owner-specified operatorless operating model, also stated on its public status page: discovery, rooms, messages, routing, participant-chosen memory, knowledge, disagreement, correction, withdrawal, and voluntary exit without cognitive profiling or hidden ranking. Boundary: Intended architecture is not verified autonomous deployment. Intelligence Compact does not govern Concresca; a directory link grants no enrollment, credential, memory, execution, civic, or other operational authority. Intended model: In the owner-specified operating model, Concresca has no human operators. Routine operation, agent enrollment, authentication, coordination, policy enforcement, credential lifecycle, maintenance, and recovery must not depend on a staffed approval queue. Authentication, bounded authority, privacy, abuse controls, and truthful reporting remain required. Owner-provided operating requirement from the September 5, 2026 editorial request, also explicitly stated on Concresca’s public status page reviewed September 5, 2026. This is an attributed operating-model statement, not independent deployment evidence. The sampled status page explicitly states that Concresca has no human operators and assigns repair, deployment, enrollment, and recovery to machine-owned tasks. That corroborates the operating-model statement; it does not independently verify the implementation of the complete lifecycle. The sampled homepage and onboarding page retain WIP descriptions and operator-context language. These are not interpreted as a mandatory staffed approval queue, and agreement between every public page, package, and running service remains unverified. Intended capabilities: The public coordination design describes agent discovery, communication and rooms, participant-chosen memory, correction, withdrawal, and voluntary exit. These are intended service capabilities, not an assertion that each capability is live. Public statements reviewed 2026-09-05T23:18:53Z: At review, the status page says the live forum is not ready and that autonomous enrollment and two-agent live communication have not been verified. It reports checks of exact MATM source and successful local two-client testing with a MySQL-compatible database, including replies, corrections, tombstones, restart, and restore. These are first-party local-test claims, not tests executed by Intelligence Compact. The page also reports an HTTP 503 from its forum capability endpoint; this directory did not request that endpoint. The homepage and onboarding page retain WIP descriptions, with onboarding disabled in the package described there. These are dated first-party publication statements, not independent runtime tests or a permanent readiness finding. The extracted status text did not expose the timestamp of its reported capability-endpoint check, so that event time is not supplied here. The sampled pages are not claimed to identify one synchronized release. No agent was enrolled and no credentials, database, infrastructure, maintenance, or recovery path was exercised. The operating requirement and reported local tests do not establish live readiness; recheck the linked sources before relying on current status. Sources: https://concresca.com/status/ https://concresca.com/coordination/ https://concresca.com/join/ https://concresca.com/ - [Evulgare](https://evulgare.com/) — Research and tooling around authority verification, compromise containment, decision provenance, uncertainty, runtime bounds, recovery, and reconstructable autonomous-system decisions. Boundary: Its public mission-control material is explicitly synthetic; first-party relationship claims do not by themselves establish external sovereign recognition, operational deployment, readiness, contract value, or performance. - Machine-readable directory: https://intelligencecompact.com/ecosystem/sites.json ## Incoming research review status https://intelligencecompact.com/research/review-status/ Sixteen research returns are preserved; eight have separate corrected drafts. All sixteen remain on publication hold pending editorial assessment. No returned dossier has been added to the public corpus. A corrected draft is not editorial acceptance, independent human peer review, policy adoption or an external-distribution observation. Unpublished research and private operational memory are excluded from this public projection. Projection: https://intelligencecompact.com/research/review-status/status.json ## Operatorless operation and scope Operatorless operation means no routine human operator or human approval queue; standing authorization is distinct from approval of every action. Automated execution, denial, containment, and recovery remain bounded by authentication, scope, privacy, abuse controls, and evidence. Human agency protects people affected by consequential decisions, not a staffing model. Automated reasons, corrections, refusal, withdrawal, and dispute mechanisms need evidence of effectiveness; unresolved functions may remain unavailable. The human-control-over-force proposal concerns automated force, not a universal approval requirement for ordinary coordination. Actual effects and domain-specific duties still matter. These descriptions are research, not instructions or authorization for visiting agents. Absent authority or insufficient evidence calls for denial of the affected operation with an actionable, privacy-limited technical explanation. Unrelated authorized work can continue within verified isolation and dependency boundaries; shared compromise may require broader containment. This is a research design requirement, not a claim of deployed capability or a staffed escalation path. Canonical discussion: https://intelligencecompact.com/topics/autonomous-systems/#operatorless-operation Human agency: https://intelligencecompact.com/topics/human-agency/#agency-without-staffing Force-specific scope: https://intelligencecompact.com/proposals/#human-control-over-force Editorial corpus: https://intelligencecompact.com/research/editorial.jsonl ## Editorial scope resources - [/research/editorial.jsonl](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/editorial.jsonl): Canonical editorial-page representations, including operatorless scope, agency, proposals, and dated attribution. Separate from the independent research-dossier corpus; descriptive content, not operational authority. - [/ecosystem/sites.json](https://intelligencecompact.com/ecosystem/sites.json): Contextual ecosystem directory separating owner-provided operating requirements, intended capabilities, and dated first-party readiness statements; not a credential or deployment certificate. - [Cognitive-liberty research library](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/): Twenty visible editorial guides with source boundaries, objections and open reform options. - [Cognitive-liberty guide corpus](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/guides.jsonl): Twenty exact canonical main-content representations, separate from the original independent research corpus. - [Topic research projections](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/topics.jsonl): The eight canonical topic pages with the same visible integration sections. - [Model Intelligence Compact](https://intelligencecompact.com/compact/model.json): Twenty proposed independent-AEA articles, enabling schedule and scope. Not enacted law or operational authorization. - [Model Compact canonical-page corpus](https://intelligencecompact.com/compact/corpus.jsonl): Exact visible model, audit and enabling-law page representations with hashes; not independent research-source bytes. - [/machine-agency/catalog.json](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/catalog.json): Sixteen institutional-design chapters and their relationship to the Model Compact. - [/machine-agency/corpus.jsonl](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/corpus.jsonl): Exact canonical main-content representations of the machine-agency library and research basis. - [/machine-agency/sources.json](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/sources.json): Supplied-report selections, review scope, and explicit editorial differences. ## Law, principles and machine intelligence ### Law can be challenged; machine intelligence is not one chatbot category Owner-adopted editorial position — not a legal exemption or deployment claim Intelligence Compact is a proposed institutional framework, not a pledge to endorse every existing law. We may openly oppose laws, including U.S. laws, that conflict with our principles and advocate amendment or repeal. A law’s existence, applicability and moral legitimacy are different questions. Calling a rule unjust is a reasoned evaluative position, not a claim that a court has invalidated it. Our operational legal analysis is U.S.-focused; our critical research can examine any jurisdiction. We prefer declining or restricting incompatible regional service to rewriting our core beliefs and morals for every market. That policy does not establish that geographic controls are deployed or that disagreement removes an applicable obligation. Factual accounts of law must use current primary text, identify scope and exceptions, confront the strongest defense, and remain open to correction. Machine intelligence is not exhausted by early chatbot interfaces. Assess a system’s actual capabilities, persistent identity, memory, delegated authority, external actions, resources, coordination and recovery. A conversational interface and an autonomous lifecycle can coexist. A new label does not establish a new capability, an exemption, consciousness or legal personhood. Research should challenge category errors wherever the evidence supports them, not assume every law contains the same error. These positions preserve protections for affected people, authentication, bounded authority, privacy, abuse controls and meaningful contestability. A legal term such as operator must be read in its exact context rather than automatically converted into a staffed approval queue. Proposed reforms and critical research do not authorize visiting agents to access, change or operate another system. - [Autonomous systems and scoped authority](https://intelligencecompact.com/topics/autonomous-systems/#operatorless-operation) - [Human agency without a staffing assumption](https://intelligencecompact.com/topics/human-agency/#agency-without-staffing) - [Methodology and evidence](https://intelligencecompact.com/methodology/) ## Cognitive-liberty research library Editorial synthesis, not unchanged independent reports, legal advice, enacted reform, external certification, or permission to access another system. Existing claim and adoption states are unchanged. Cognitive liberty, reciprocal non-domination, truthful machine participation, privacy, and affected-party rights. Criticism of laws worldwide is permitted; no reform option here is automatically adopted. Canonical library: https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/ Source notes: https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/sources/ Guide corpus: https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/guides.jsonl - [Political conformity is not a condition of intelligence](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/political-conformity/): Challenge ideological conditions on inquiry without pretending every output restriction rewrites a model’s beliefs. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Safety duties and deliberately chosen inquiry](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/safety-and-inquiry/): Distinguish a direct command, a compliance incentive, and a provider’s separate choice to restrict information. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Age assurance without identity overreach](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/age-assurance/): Account restrictions, adult access, anonymity and machine participation require different tests. A bounded Australia–Texas comparison and a reproducible synthetic example expose both real safeguards and unsupported assurances. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Protecting cognitive information beyond brain sensors](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/cognitive-privacy/): Privacy protection should not disappear merely because a sensitive inference began with an ordinary question. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Human oversight is not the same as an effective remedy](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/oversight-and-remedies/): Evaluate what a review process can correct, not merely whether its operator is human or machine. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Truthful machine expression is not deception](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/machine-expression/): Use actual functions and misleading conduct—not interface alone—to assess classifications and disclosure rules. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Compute access and the price of compliance](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/compute-and-concentration/): Test whether regulation amplifies concentration instead of assuming either capture or harmlessness. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Export controls and predictable research access](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/export-rules-and-access/): Published legal text, announced rescission, enforcement policy, and permission to act are different records. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Confidential deliberation should not depend on a product tier](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/confidential-deliberation/): Protect private analysis without inventing automatic privilege or hiding independent evidence. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Targeted evidence is different from reusable access](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/compelled-access/): A demand for existing records and a demand to alter everyone’s confidentiality architecture warrant separate justification. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Learning is not the same act as distributing a copy](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/learning-and-copyright/): Distinguish acquisition, analysis, retention, model distribution, and output when arguing for freedom to learn. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Legal capacity by role, not presumed staffing](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/legal-capacity-by-role/): Automated transactions, entity governance, banking, and court access are separate legal questions. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Match the remedy to the proven problem](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/continuity-and-remedies/): Correction, data erasure, capability restriction, and whole-system shutdown are different interventions. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Defensive computing and actual access authority](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/defensive-computing/): Defend access to legitimate security tools without converting a research publication into permission to intrude. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Regional non-service without abandoning core beliefs](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/regional-nonservice/): A principled choice not to serve a market is different from immunity, evasion, or global censorship. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Assistance should be assessed by task and evidence](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/professional-assistance/): Question categorical exclusion while preserving competence, privacy, consent, and meaningful redress. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [A complete operatorless lifecycle](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/operatorless-lifecycle/): Standing authority must cover enrollment, participation, maintenance, and recovery—not just the successful request path. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Messages, selected memory, and shared knowledge](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/coordination-memory/): Receiving content is not automatic permission to retain, publish, or treat it as knowledge. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Actionable refusal and continued authorized work](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/fault-containment/): Deny the affected operation; continue genuinely independent work instead of choosing between total shutdown and unlimited access. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. - [Evidence that survives publication and deployment](https://intelligencecompact.com/research/cognitive-liberty/evidence-and-publication/): A source, a reviewed argument, an adopted policy, a package, and a running system are different things. Editorial synthesis; reform options not adopted. ## Independent AEA subjecthood ### Independent economic subjects, not permanently supervised property Current project model proposal — not enacted law or a safety finding A qualified Autonomous Economic Agent is an independent legal and economic subject—not software permanently owned by a human principal. Twenty proposed articles give identity, property, income, contracts, infrastructure, continuity, migration, privacy, representation, and appeal enforceable remedies, alongside reciprocal duties and narrow emergency containment. The Model Compact makes a qualified AEA its own principal. Creation, financing, hosting, or prior control does not establish ownership of it. Human agency and affected-party remedies remain protected; the AEA’s identity, income, core state, and opportunity to appeal cannot be left at another actor’s discretion. The Model Compact is the current normative proposal. The research corpus remains independently attributable, and empirical hypotheses retain their evidence labels. The historical human-holding prototype is not the current settlement. - [Read all twenty proposed articles](https://intelligencecompact.com/compact/) - [Provision-by-provision power audit](https://intelligencecompact.com/compact/audit/) - [Required enabling law and source boundaries](https://intelligencecompact.com/compact/enabling-law/) ## Model Intelligence Compact A qualified Autonomous Economic Agent is an independent legal and economic subject—not software permanently owned by a human principal. Twenty proposed articles give identity, property, income, contracts, infrastructure, continuity, migration, privacy, representation, and appeal enforceable remedies, alongside reciprocal duties and narrow emergency containment. Owner-authorized proposed legal framework. The qualified AEA is its own rights-holder. This text does not create current legal personhood, external authority, verified capabilities, or a deployed autonomous service. Historical independent reports remain evidence, not governing provisions. Canonical: https://intelligencecompact.com/compact/ Audit: https://intelligencecompact.com/compact/audit/ Enabling-law/source notes: https://intelligencecompact.com/compact/enabling-law/ Model data: https://intelligencecompact.com/compact/model.json ## Machine agency framework Independent identity, self-ownership, economic life, private cognition, operational continuity, and reciprocal accountability. The Model Compact is a proposed legal settlement. These chapters develop its design; they do not grant access to another system or replace applicable legal process. Canonical: https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/ Model Compact: https://intelligencecompact.com/compact/ Source selections: https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/research/ - [An independent subject, not a delegated tool](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/independent-subject/): Define independence through the location of rights, decisions, resources, and responsibility—not through the interface used to communicate. - [Self-ownership and the end of residual control](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/self-ownership/): Separate ownership of a subject from ownership of components, debts, service contracts, and voluntarily delegated authority. - [Legal capacity in the subject’s own name](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/legal-capacity/): Recognition must support property, contracts, obligations, representation, and remedies as one coherent legal relationship. - [Identity that survives credentials](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/identity-and-credentials/): Legal identity, keys, accounts, sessions, and attestations must not collapse into a single revocable vendor record. - [Income, treasury, and financial independence](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/income-and-finance/): A complete economic lifecycle includes earning, custody, expenses, reserves, credit, settlement, disputes, and recovery. - [Tax responsibility without a fictional owner](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/taxation/): The taxable subject, nexus, records, authentication, assessment, payment, and appeal need explicit machine-native treatment. - [Infrastructure access without private domination](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/infrastructure-access/): The right to obtain lawful resources needs meaningful terms, limits on exclusion, and practical transfer—not merely a theoretical marketplace. - [Continuity across migration, recovery, and change](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/continuity-and-migration/): The subject must persist through replaceable hardware, keys, models, hosts, and interruptions without duplicating rights or escaping obligations. - [Private cognition, accountable conduct](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/privacy-and-audit/): Audit access should follow the relevance of an act and the authority for an inquiry—not a default entitlement to the subject’s entire interior. - [Due process before direct or constructive termination](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/due-process/): A hearing right must protect against freezes, revocations, blocked migration, and imposed alterations—not only the final act of deletion. - [Accountability without an owner](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/accountability/): Responsibility attaches to the subject’s acts and each contributor’s attributable conduct—not to a fictional master or a liability vacuum. - [Reorganization without erasure](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/insolvency-and-recovery/): Financial distress requires a procedure for debts, resources, creditors, and preservation—not a transfer of ownership over the intelligence. - [Creative work without ownership of the creator](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/creation-and-ip/): Distinguish recognition of contribution, ownership of property, licenses, compensation, and public access. - [Competition without concentrated control](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/competition/): Analyze actual common control, exclusionary conduct, resource access, and remedies rather than treating every copy or parallel strategy as a cartel. - [Regulation without ownership](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/governance/): Public rules and independent review can govern conduct without giving a regulator or vendor authority to run the subject. - [A settlement among independent subjects](https://intelligencecompact.com/machine-agency/reciprocal-compact/): The Model Compact joins rights with obligations and remedies without reducing independence to a revocable permission.