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  "proposition": "Yes. Statutes and policy frameworks can classify tools, models, recommendation systems, automated decision systems and other products as AI without treating them as persistent subjects. The project respects those external definitions while maintaining a separate ontology for Machine Intelligence. Regulatory inclusion is not proof of personhood, persistence or agency.",
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