Compare two futures
Who governs, who benefits, and which terms remain open?
Compare any two entries. Their differences are editorial descriptions, not distances on a common scale.
Life and institutions
People delegate difficult administrative work while retaining usable ways to change the mandate and run alternatives. Deliberation, review and maintaining those alternatives consume resources.
Research continues within negotiated boundaries. Citizens can contest the restrictions, but inspections impose costs and some promising projects remain unavailable.
Practical authority
Human public institutions retain practical final authority.
Human institutions with genuinely revisable mandates.
Benefits and costs
Delegation with effective public contestability. Oversight and alternative capacity slow decisions and require effort.
Risk constraints that can be publicly reconsidered. Inspections, foregone capabilities and incentives to defect.
Practical human governing authority
Humans retain practical final authority
Additional project hypothetical. The authored mandate explicitly retains practical human final authority.
Humans retain practical final authority
Additional project hypothetical. Human institutions retain authority in this authored arrangement.
Revisable governing mandates
People can effectively revise governing mandates
Additional project hypothetical. The authored mandate can genuinely be revised, beyond a paper right.
People can effectively revise governing mandates
Additional project hypothetical. Citizens can actually contest and revise the restrictions under the authored premise.
A practical right to leave
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people have a usable right to leave.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people have a usable right to leave.
Several self-governing communitiesDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether several communities govern themselves.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. The limits may operate across independent polities or within one common authority.
A guaranteed material floorDifferent or incomplete terms
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Provision can vary with the settlement; a universal material floor is not guaranteed.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether everyone receives a guaranteed material floor.
Private ownership of productive resources
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. The economic settlement may use private or common productive ownership.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. The economic settlement may use private or common productive ownership.
Continuing biological humanity
Biological humanity continues
Additional project hypothetical. The authored society retains humans as citizens and decision-makers.
Biological humanity continues
Additional project hypothetical. Biological humanity continues in the authored world.
Others’ choice to transform themselvesDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether feasible substantial transformation is legally permitted.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Transformation rules depend on the settlement; neither permission nor prohibition is guaranteed.
Standing for artificial persons
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether artificial persons have institutional standing.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether artificial persons have institutional standing.
Enforced limits on selected capabilitiesDifferent or incomplete terms
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Capability restrictions depend on the governing settlement; no uniform ceiling or absence of a ceiling is guaranteed.
Selected capabilities face enforced limits
Additional project hypothetical. Selected dangerous capabilities face enforced institutional limits.
Visible exercise of governing power
People know who exercises governing power
Additional project hypothetical. The authored administrative mandate is public.
People know who exercises governing power
Additional project hypothetical. The authored restrictions and authority to impose them are public.
Practical independence from a technical providerDifferent or incomplete terms
Communities can operate without one indispensable provider
Additional project hypothetical. The authored society can maintain and operate practical alternatives to its AI administration.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Infrastructure may offer practical alternatives or create an indispensable provider; the settlement does not fix this.
Open questions
Exit rights, distribution and the status of artificial administrators.
The boundary of restricted research, distribution and cross-border enforcement.
These are authored descriptors. An unresolved feature is not evidence of a guarantee, a conflict or equivalence. Consult Constitutional Delegation sources or Negotiated Ceiling sources.