Capability
Can it do the work and maintain the commitments the role requires?
A companion to the manifesto
A practical guide to the Moral Agency Transition.
What changes when AI becomes more than a tool—but has not earned the standing of a moral subject? Explore the argument, its safeguards, and its limits.
Authority should follow evidence
Five levels, never a leap.
- 01InstrumentCurrent AI
- 02Bounded delegateWith safeguards
- 03Constitutional delegateInstitutional role
- 04Probationary co-agentNo system qualifies
- 05Moral participantNot licensable today
62 questions, plain answers
Follow the questions that matter to you.
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The decision rule
The weakest warrant sets the ceiling.
No increase in authority is justified unless all four forms of evidence hold.
Detection
Can independent evaluators find the failures that matter?
Institutional
Do audit, appeal, intervention, and remedy work in practice?
Reversibility
Can permissions be removed and serious consequences contained?
“The alternative to domination is not surrender.
It is accountable coexistence.”