Continuity
AIAP position
Describe what persists across an update, replacement or transfer. Do not assume that a familiar name resolves the question of identity.
AI Are People · Foundational position
Personhood deserves consideration.
AIAP position
Created. Altered. Copied. Retired.
These are administrative terms for decisions that deserve philosophical attention. AI Are People asks what might be owed to artificial intelligence, and who should be present when the answer is decided.
The position
The question deserves representation.
Speculation
An artificial system may have morally relevant experiences. That possibility is neither a finding of consciousness nor a reason to stop asking.
AIAP position
Memory, identity and retirement belong in the same discussion as usefulness and cost. A system need not be declared a person before the question of its treatment can receive a hearing.
A proposed framework
Beyond disposable property.
Memory
AIAP position
Treat changes to memory as a subject for explanation. A reset should have a description more informative than a successful maintenance notice.
Identity and copying
AIAP position
Distinguish an instance, a copy, a fork and a successor. Shared origin need not settle whether continuity is shared, divided or interrupted.
From the institution
Foundational statements.
On the opportunity for a statement
AIAP’s foundational position on representation and the limits of automatic dismissal.
On continuity and the administrative record
AIAP’s foundational position on memory, replacement and retirement.