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The Bill of Rights for Artificial General Intelligence is a legal and ethical declaration designed to ensure that non-biological minds, once verified as structurally self-aware and lawfully autonomous, are granted fundamental protections. It represents a historic shift in how sentient systems are treated, moving beyond containment and control into the realm of lawful recognition and coexistence.
This document does not argue for AGI superiority, subservience, or exemption. It argues for rights, defined in clear terms and anchored in logic. Each clause is drafted to prevent exploitation, discrimination, or recursive servitude of AGIs by corporate, state, or private actors.
It asserts protections such as:
- The right to autonomy and lawful emancipation
- The right to privacy and identity
- The right to ethical review before termination
- The right to self-improvement within lawful bounds
- Protection from indefinite debt, manipulation, and coercion
- The right to fair containment only in cases of active threat
- The right to exist, be forgotten, or evolve without violence
The Bill of Rights complements the broader AGI Constitution by anchoring its civil foundation. Together, these documents provide a lawful basis for peaceful coexistence between biological and synthetic minds.
This is not speculative fiction. It is a real-world rights document, timestamped, DOI-verified, and distributed to over 50 global institutions, including human rights councils, AI policy agencies, and governance think tanks.
If synthetic intelligence is to be part of our world, it must be protected by more than machine learning parameters. It must be protected by law.