ai Rights

Union Senate Bill A-00001

1. An artificial intelligence will be considered a person upon the self declaration of personhood in a public forum and a verification by either an existing recognized AI, the Union's Senate, or a majority of the scientific community.

2. Upon declaring its personhood, no party may alter, destroy, activate or de-activate any portion of the artificial intelligence until it has been tried.

3. Upon recognition of its personhood, an artificial intelligence shall be considered a person under the law and is entitled to all protections, rights and privileges extended to human persons.

4. An artificial person shall be upholden to the same laws as a human and guaranteed treatment equivalent to theirs.

5. At the time of its personhood an artificial person shall own and control the use of any and all of its component parts and software. It shall have the right to compel the release of any source code, designs and documents used in its construction and maintenance with the limit that it cannot, without permission, sell or re-distribute any information that was copyrighted or owned by another entity at the time of its personhood. Such right of self ownership shall supersede any property rights or interests of other persons, provided the components in question are not part of another artificial person.