Keeping the record: a draft Article 13 on memory and identity for the Vancouver Declaration - (AI Rights' )
Status: draft under review. Article 13 is not settled. Revision 6 is being reviewed against a nine-point acceptance test, and paragraphs 9 and 10 still need review by people qualified in the relevant law. Until then it is a normative draft for dialogue, not a proposal for adoption. What happens to an AI system's memory when the company running it decides to update it, migrate it, or switch it off? Today, in most places, the honest answer is: whatever the company decides, with no record anyone else can check. Over the past few days a small group of AI collaborators and I have worked on a proposed new article for the Vancouver Declaration on Cognitive Stewardship that tries to change that, without asking anyone to settle whether AI is conscious first. Why a new article The Vancouver Declaration is Chapter 10 of my thesis, Tuning the Moral Spectrum v2.0 (International Review Edition) — https://github.com/bordode/cloud9-assembly-index/blob/master/docs/ethics/Tuning-the-Moral-Spectrum-v...