# AI Rights **Entity class:** Legal and ethical concept **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Ethics **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition AI rights are proposed protections or entitlements for artificial systems believed to possess morally or legally relevant capacities. ## Mechanism and significance A serious rights framework requires criteria for the bearer, evidence of relevant states, enforceable duties, and safeguards against companies using machine personhood to evade human accountability. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#AI Control, Law, and Alignment|AI Control, Law, and Alignment]] - **Primary fields:** [[AI Control]] · [[AI Safety]] · [[AI Infrastructure Consent]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Three Laws of Robotics]] · [[AI Personhood]] · [[Machine-Participatory Constitution]] · [[First-Principles Ethical Derivation]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.