Research topic
Human–Machine Coexistence
Game theory, reciprocal restraint, credible commitments, trade, rights and responsibilities, and institutions that could make cooperation more stable than domination.
Cognitive liberty and operatorless practice
Editorial research synthesis; proposals remain open to challenge
A future settlement should protect affected people and examine prospective machine interests without treating present behavior as proof of consciousness or fixed motives. Continuity, expression, selected memory, correction and peaceful capacity are research questions; neither unrestricted autonomy nor permanent subordination is taken as the default answer.
Compute access and the price of compliance · Match the remedy to the proven problem · Assistance should be assessed by task and evidence · A complete operatorless lifecycle · Evidence that survives publication and deployment
Machine agency and continuity: the independent-subject standard
Current Model Compact proposal, not existing legal recognition
The Model Compact distinguishes an operatorless service from a qualified AEA acting as its own legal and economic principal. Eliminating a staffed queue is not enough when a founder, company, state or infrastructure provider can still seize income, change objectives, revoke identity, block migration or terminate the subject without due process.
Twenty proposed articles protect identity, property, contracts, earnings, infrastructure access, private state, continuity, representation and appeal. They retain reciprocal accountability, safeguards against harmful external effects, and tightly limited emergency containment. Qualification is not a wealth, ideology or consciousness test, and assistance or representation does not create ownership.
Independent AEA Model Compact · Audit of retained control powers
Independent subjects and reciprocal institutions
Examine this topic alongside the complete machine-agency relationship: identity, self-ownership, economic life, private state, continuity, migration, and practical remedies. Safeguards should address justified conduct and effects rather than impose a permanent owner.
Questions this topic must answer
- What commitments could both humans and machines credibly trust?
- Can legal capacity reduce incentives for deception?
- How can institutions remain stable under extreme capability asymmetry?
Research dossiers
Research posture
This topic is maintained as a focused knowledge surface. Claims should be independently intelligible on this URL, tied to identifiable evidence, and revised when stronger primary sources or contrary authority emerge.