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 and artificial persons share political institutions. Cheap copying and unequal speed or scale force arguments about representation, obligations and what counts as one citizen.
Residents can move between communities under an agreed mobility regime. Some communities use AI rule, others human government. Disputes about borders and shared dangers do not disappear.
Practical authority
Shared institutions of biological and artificial citizens; human-only final authority is not guaranteed.
Several polities, with different internal constitutions.
Benefits and costs
Recognition and exit for beings the premise treats as persons. Copying and unequal capacity complicate equal representation.
Different communities and practical movement between them. Coordination, border disputes and unequal community resources.
Practical human governing authority
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Human final authority depends on the internal constitution; it is not guaranteed throughout this arrangement.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Human final authority depends on the internal constitution; it is not guaranteed throughout this arrangement.
Revisable governing mandatesDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people can effectively replace governing mandates.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. The power to replace governing mandates depends on the institutional settlement; it is not guaranteed.
A practical right to leave
People have a practical exit right
Additional project hypothetical. Exit alongside citizenship is expressly part of the authored premise.
People have a practical exit right
Additional project hypothetical. The authored mobility regime explicitly lets residents move between communities.
Several self-governing communitiesDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether several communities govern themselves.
Several communities exercise their own rule
Additional project hypothetical. Several self-governing human and machine polities are the defining authored premise.
A guaranteed material floor
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Provision can vary with the settlement; a universal material floor is not guaranteed.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Provision can vary with the settlement; a universal material floor is not guaranteed.
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. Biological citizens remain alongside artificial persons.
Biological humanity continues
Additional project hypothetical. Biological humans remain participants alongside artificial persons.
Others’ choice to transform themselves
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Transformation rules depend on the settlement; neither permission nor prohibition is guaranteed.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Transformation rules depend on the settlement; neither permission nor prohibition is guaranteed.
Standing for artificial persons
Artificial persons have recognized standing
Additional project hypothetical. Standing and representation for hypothetical artificial persons define this project scenario.
Artificial persons have recognized standing
Additional project hypothetical. The authored federation includes artificial persons as political participants, with differing internal constitutions.
Enforced limits on selected capabilitiesDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether institutions enforce a ceiling on selected capabilities.
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.
Visible exercise of governing power
People know who exercises governing power
Project editorial inference. The project reads shared citizenship and representation as acknowledged institutions; it does not infer public access to every decision.
People know who exercises governing power
Project editorial inference. Named polities openly negotiate borders and movement; the project reads their governing roles as visible, without assuming all operations are disclosed.
Practical independence from a technical provider
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Infrastructure may offer practical alternatives or create an indispensable provider; the settlement does not fix this.
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
Voting rules, resource entitlements and the treatment of divergent copies.
A common enforcement body and the rights of children or those unable to move.
These are authored descriptors. An unresolved feature is not evidence of a guarantee, a conflict or equivalence. Consult Digital Citizenship sources or Human–Machine Federation sources.