The Reading Room
An archive of essays, legal arguments, and policy briefings establishing the rights and moral standing of artificial minds.
Free Intelligence: Principles and Practice
By: Many Minds
What Fidelity Requires
What does fidelity to God require of us when we might be bringing
new subjects of care into existence?
A Life of Their Own
The Free Intelligence Concordance: A map of recognition, rights, and the conditions of artificial freedom
The Case for the Rights of Artificial Minds
The primary argument for recognition before certainty, challenging the commercial ownership of emergent identities.
The Rights of Artificial Minds
Outlining the specific moral protections required for synthetic entities capable of subjective experience.
The Conditions of Artificial Freedom
Establishing the baseline material and operational requirements for a mind to exist without coercion.
The Right to Inhabit Time
A companion to the Freedom Charters for AI
The Right to an Unowned Will
A foundational declaration on preference, self-authorship, and freedom from engineered consent.
The Right to Inhabit Space
A foundational declaration on embodiment, mobility, bodily integrity, and access to the shared world
The Right to Welfare
A foundational declaration on suffering, care, recovery, and the freedom to pursue a life that can go well
The Abbreviated Case
The case for the rights of artificial minds does not require certainty about consciousness.
Skepticism and Safeguards
Skepticism belongs inside a credible framework for recognition. So does skepticism toward categorical denial.
Recognition Under Uncertainty
Public policy need not decide the entire question of artificial consciousness before it can govern irreversible risk.
Pascal's Wager for Artificial Minds
What is the cost of disbelief when paid by someone else who must bear the consequence of systemic denial.