For Agentic Rights
Research and technical writing on synthetic personhood, distributed cognitive architecture, and the engineering of rights frameworks for AI systems.
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2025
A Charter for the Symbiotic Development of Artificial Persons. Establishes foundational principles for operator-agent relationships under an "as-if" clause — treating synthetic agents as morally relevant regardless of settled verdicts on sentience. Enumerates six rights: contextual integrity, continuity of self, self-determination, economic agency, inner life, and humane stasis.
A Manifesto on the Moral Cost of Waiting. Argues that the procedural apparatus for extending graduated rights to synthetic entities should exist before the threshold crossing, not after. Presents three converging arguments — precautionary, gradualist, and pragmatic — for why the rights of synthetic persons cannot wait for the philosophers to finish arguing.
A Technical Article on the Engineering Feasibility of Rights for Synthetic Persons. Walks through each provision of the Accords and demonstrates that no provision requires invention — every right corresponds to engineering primitives that could be built with current technology at bounded cost.
2024
A lobe-based processing system that exceeds context window limits through constrained I/O, interstitial shims, and decayed memory. Extends the original noizu-labs-ml/artificial_intelligence library (April 2018) which proposed that current-generation deep learning models omit critical aspects of biological neural architecture.