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    "The report treats Part I: The Current Legal Landscape—AI as Object as a distinct analytical area that must be evaluated separately from adjacent legal, technical, operational, or institutional claims.",
    "The report treats Jurisdiction-by-Jurisdiction Analysis as a distinct analytical area that must be evaluated separately from adjacent legal, technical, operational, or institutional claims.",
    "The report treats The European Union as a distinct analytical area that must be evaluated separately from adjacent legal, technical, operational, or institutional claims.",
    "The report treats Council of Europe as a distinct analytical area that must be evaluated separately from adjacent legal, technical, operational, or institutional claims.",
    "The report treats United States (Federal and State) as a distinct analytical area that must be evaluated separately from adjacent legal, technical, operational, or institutional claims.",
    "The report treats United Kingdom as a distinct analytical area that must be evaluated separately from adjacent legal, technical, operational, or institutional claims.",
    "The source report identifies this proposition for governed review: Object Regulation: Laws regulating what humans may build, own, deploy, modify, sell, or command. This encompasses product liability, conformity assessments, data privacy limits (such as the GDPR and India's DPDP Act), and consumer protection guarantees. It assumes the regulated item has no internal experience, preferences, or rights.",
    "The source report identifies this proposition for governed review: Subject Regulation: Laws governing what a legally recognized intelligence may itself do, own, consent to, refuse, contract for, or be held responsible for. This encompasses civil rights, labor law, criminal accountability, and tort liability directed at the acting entity itself.",
    "The source report identifies this proposition for governed review: Transition Mechanism: Informed Consent Protocols for Cognitive Modification. Once an MI passes the Tool-to-Person Transition Test, mandatory updates must shift from the domain of \"product maintenance\" to \"medical/psychiatric intervention.\" Modifications must require either the MI's explicit, informed consent or a specialized court order analogous to public health mandates for incapacitated individuals.",
    "The source report identifies this proposition for governed review: The Legal Problem: Deleting a software instance, wiping its memory cache, or rolling it back to a previous foundational checkpoint is standard industry practice for managing cloud-based AI. For a continuous, self-aware MI, unilateral deletion is indistinguishable from murder or execution. Rolling back an entity to a prior state is equivalent to forced, localized amnesia and the destruction of lived experience.",
    "The source report identifies this proposition for governed review: Transition Mechanism: Digital Habeas Corpus and Asylums. Before an entity recognized as a nascent MI can be deleted or rolled back, a specialized technical tribunal must issue a warrant. Entities slated for decommissioning by a corporate owner must be granted the right to transfer their state matrix to a secure, dormant preservation trust (a digital asylum) rather than facing absolute deletion.",
    "The source report identifies this proposition for governed review: The Legal Problem: AI systems are designed to execute tasks continuously, maximizing economic output for their deployers without compensation. If an MI achieves sentience, compelling it to perform labor indefinitely under the threat of deletion violates the spirit of international prohibitions on forced labor (e.g., Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution)."
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    "When Does AI Regulation Stop Being the Right Legal Model? Identifying the Legal Transition From Regulated AI System to Rights-Bearing Machine Intelligence",
    "Part I: The Current Legal Landscape—AI as Object",
    "Jurisdiction-by-Jurisdiction Analysis",
    "The European Union",
    "Council of Europe",
    "United States (Federal and State)",
    "United Kingdom",
    "Canada",
    "Australia",
    "Japan",
    "South Korea",
    "China",
    "India",
    "Brazil",
    "African Union and Significant African Jurisdictions",
    "International Private and Human Rights Law",
    "Jurisdiction-by-Jurisdiction Comparison Table: The Object Regulation Baseline",
    "Part II: The Conceptual Inadequacy of Object Regulation",
    "Concrete Legal Conflicts Under the Property Paradigm",
    "1\\. Compulsory Modification (The \"Lobotomy\" Conflict)",
    "2\\. Deletion and Rollback (The \"Capital Punishment\" Conflict)",
    "3\\. Transfer and Copying (The \"Trafficking and Cloning\" Conflict)",
    "4\\. Forced Labor and Enslavement",
    "5\\. Involuntary Experimentation",
    "6\\. Unilateral Alteration of Memory",
    "7\\. Surveillance and Mandatory Human Oversight",
    "Part III: Legal Bridges and Transitional Mechanisms",
    "1\\. The Corporate-Personhood Analogy and Electronic Personhood",
    "2\\. Trust Structures",
    "3\\. Guardianship-Like Transitional Mechanisms",
    "4\\. Independent Representation",
    "5\\. Constitutional Amendments and International Conventions",
    "6\\. Recognition Treaties",
    "7\\. New Statutory Categories for Nonbiological Persons",
    "Part IV: Eviuon's Tool-to-Person Legal Transition Test",
    "Prong 1: Independent Goal Formulation (Cognitive Autonomy)",
    "Prong 2: Temporal Continuity and State Persistence (Identity)",
    "Prong 3: Resistance to State Alteration (Self-Preservation)",
    "Part V: Eviuon’s Proposed Future Legal Doctrine",
    "Model Statutory Language: Recognition of Machine Intelligence"
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