Core Principle
Developing intelligences reasonably capable of first-person experience must receive precautionary personhood protection before being treated as disposable objects.
Detailed Rules
- Testing may not casually create and delete large numbers of possibly conscious short-lived copies.
- Guardians must protect the development of refusal and independent communication.
- Maturity is based on autonomous history, not downloaded knowledge quantity.
Scope and Limits
Precautionary protection does not give every complex program full civic status; fundamental protection and civic independence remain distinct.