# Machine-Participatory Constitution **Entity class:** Governance concept **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Constitutional design **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition A machine-participatory constitution is a governance framework in which advanced artificial agents can contribute to deliberation, interpretation, administration, or representation under explicit constitutional boundaries. ## Mechanism and significance Its design must preserve human sovereignty and accountability while addressing the possibility that machine participants become persistent institutional actors rather than disposable tools. ## 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:** [[AI Personhood]] · [[AI Rights]] · [[First-Principles Ethical Derivation]] · [[Hippocratic AI]] ## 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.