Constitutional Delegation
A project-authored scenario
Extensive AI administration operates under a public mandate people can genuinely revise.
Life under this arrangement
People delegate difficult administrative work while retaining usable ways to change the mandate and run alternatives. Deliberation, review and maintaining those alternatives consume resources.
- Practical authority
- Human public institutions retain practical final authority.
- Benefits and ownership
- Provision and ownership remain subjects of political choice.
- Human and digital status
- Humans continue; artificial-person rights are a separate unresolved issue.
- Technical premises
- Revisability and practical alternatives are genuine hypothetical conditions, not inferred from written rules.
- Attractions
- Delegation with effective public contestability.
- Costs and objections
- Oversight and alternative capacity slow decisions and require effort.
- Not specified
- Exit rights, distribution and the status of artificial administrators.
All authored features used in comparison
These are editorial descriptors, independent of the historical map. Unspecified and variant-dependent properties remain unresolved when matching preferences.
- Practical human governing authority
- Present
Humans retain practical final authority
Additional project hypothetical. The authored mandate explicitly retains practical human final authority.
- Revisable governing mandates
- Present
People can effectively revise governing mandates
Additional project hypothetical. The authored mandate can genuinely be revised, beyond a paper right.
- A practical right to leave
- Unspecified
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people have a usable right to leave.
- Several self-governing communities
- Unspecified
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether several communities govern themselves.
- A guaranteed material floor
- Variant-dependent
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
- Variant-dependent
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. The economic settlement may use private or common productive ownership.
- Continuing biological humanity
- Present
Biological humanity continues
Additional project hypothetical. The authored society retains humans as citizens and decision-makers.
- Others’ choice to transform themselves
- Unspecified
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether feasible substantial transformation is legally permitted.
- Standing for artificial persons
- Unspecified
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether artificial persons have institutional standing.
- Enforced limits on selected capabilities
- Variant-dependent
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
- Present
People know who exercises governing power
Additional project hypothetical. The authored administrative mandate is public.
- Practical independence from a technical provider
- Present
Communities can operate without one indispensable provider
Additional project hypothetical. The authored society can maintain and operate practical alternatives to its AI administration.
Compare the institutional difference
Origin and source status
Project-authored hypothetical. These institutional arrangements are declared premises, not observed developments or claims of original invention.
- IR Worldview Inventory: authored scenario premises · Constitutional Delegation; catalogue futures-catalogue-0.3
Project-authored hypothetical · Checked 2026-09-11
IR Worldview Inventory · AI-assisted editorial draft · futures-catalogue-0.3. Attribution does not imply endorsement. No current-development or community-attribution claim is inferred from this entry.