Human–Machine Federation
A project-authored scenario
Several human and machine polities negotiate movement, borders and common risks while keeping different forms of rule.
Life under this arrangement
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
- Several polities, with different internal constitutions.
- Benefits and ownership
- Provision differs between communities; membership and movement affect access.
- Human and digital status
- Biological humans and artificial persons participate, without uniform political systems.
- Technical premises
- Credible mobility and workable inter-polity agreements; no particular ASI threshold is assumed.
- Attractions
- Different communities and practical movement between them.
- Costs and objections
- Coordination, border disputes and unequal community resources.
- Not specified
- A common enforcement body and the rights of children or those unable to move.
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
- Variant-dependent
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 mandates
- Variant-dependent
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
- Present
People have a practical exit right
Additional project hypothetical. The authored mobility regime explicitly lets residents move between communities.
- Several self-governing communities
- Present
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
- 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. Biological humans remain participants alongside artificial persons.
- Others’ choice to transform themselves
- Variant-dependent
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Transformation rules depend on the settlement; neither permission nor prohibition is guaranteed.
- Standing for artificial persons
- Present
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 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
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
- Variant-dependent
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Infrastructure may offer practical alternatives or create an indispensable provider; the settlement does not fix this.
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 · Human–Machine Federation; 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.