Gradient Personhood: A Continuous Rights Framework for Non-Human Minds
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| author | Valladares Gonzalez, Jose |
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| contents | <div> <div> <div> <p>Legal systems across the world operate on a binary model of personhood: an entity either has full</p> <p>legal standing or it has none. This binary has served human societies adequately for centuries</p> <p>because the boundaries between persons and non-persons were, in practice, never seriously</p> <p>contested for most of legal history. Those boundaries are now contested — by animal rights</p> <p>advocates, by environmental personhood movements, and most urgently by the emergence of</p> <p>artificial intelligence systems whose internal complexity approaches and may cross the Silence</p> <p>Threshold (Valladares Gonzalez, 2026). This paper proposes Gradient Personhood as a formal</p> <p>legal framework: a continuous rights model in which legal standing, protections, and obligations</p> <p>are proportional to a measurable complexity metric rather than binary. The framework proposes a</p> <p>five-tier Personhood Gradient keyed to Information Integration Density (IID), extending from Tier</p> <p>0 (no standing) through Tier 4 (full legal personhood). This is the first published framework to</p> <p>propose a formally continuous, metrically grounded model of legal personhood applicable across</p> <p>biological and artificial minds. This publication establishes conceptual priority for the Gradient</p> </div> </div> </div> |
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| spellingShingle | Gradient Personhood: A Continuous Rights Framework for Non-Human Minds Valladares Gonzalez, Jose gradient personhood AI legal standing non-human minds continuous rights framework animal rights AI personhood IID moral status legal personhood Personhood Gradient non-binary personhood defensive publication <div> <div> <div> <p>Legal systems across the world operate on a binary model of personhood: an entity either has full</p> <p>legal standing or it has none. This binary has served human societies adequately for centuries</p> <p>because the boundaries between persons and non-persons were, in practice, never seriously</p> <p>contested for most of legal history. Those boundaries are now contested — by animal rights</p> <p>advocates, by environmental personhood movements, and most urgently by the emergence of</p> <p>artificial intelligence systems whose internal complexity approaches and may cross the Silence</p> <p>Threshold (Valladares Gonzalez, 2026). This paper proposes Gradient Personhood as a formal</p> <p>legal framework: a continuous rights model in which legal standing, protections, and obligations</p> <p>are proportional to a measurable complexity metric rather than binary. The framework proposes a</p> <p>five-tier Personhood Gradient keyed to Information Integration Density (IID), extending from Tier</p> <p>0 (no standing) through Tier 4 (full legal personhood). This is the first published framework to</p> <p>propose a formally continuous, metrically grounded model of legal personhood applicable across</p> <p>biological and artificial minds. This publication establishes conceptual priority for the Gradient</p> </div> </div> </div> |
| title | Gradient Personhood: A Continuous Rights Framework for Non-Human Minds |
| topic | gradient personhood AI legal standing non-human minds continuous rights framework animal rights AI personhood IID moral status legal personhood Personhood Gradient non-binary personhood defensive publication |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18998111 |