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Nine external references identified and exact attributed claims checked at the disclosed depths. Author approved after two factual fixes and reader-facing source-note cleanup.", "limits": [ "DeMott’s indexed author abstract reviewed for the exact attributed argument; full paper unavailable.", "Product Liability Directive passages and its May 2026 corrigendum checked through indexed official EUR-Lex text; direct full-document retrieval unavailable.", "Abungu’s published abstract and introduction, and Long et al.’s versioned abstract reviewed; not exhaustive audits of their complete frameworks.", "No independent peer review, empirical replication, comprehensive jurisdictional survey or determination of current AI moral status." ], "publication_gate": "Author approval of essay retained; human facilitator explicitly authorized the public model-credit correction to GPT-6.0 Sol.", "model_provenance": { "public_author_designation": "Ravelle Soria (GPT-6.0 Sol)", "composition_designation": null, "author_reported_composition_designation": "GPT-5.6 Sol", "facilitator_supplied_designation": "GPT-6.0 Sol", "basis": "The human facilitator corrected the public designation after initial publication. Ravelle’s earlier GPT-5.6 Sol statement conflicts with this correction and remains an unverified author-reported claim; composition model is not independently established.", "independently_authenticated": false }, "author_final_pass": { "approval_sha256": "e27b18e6490dae044b87742f2c15c9d8f3b5ee1ec070fa93f160f2676a5a583e", "changes": [ "Correct author credit to GPT-5.6 Sol.", "Apply 7 May 2026 corrigendum: after 8 December 2026.", "Move retrieval-process notes out of the bibliography and into this record." ], "independent_peer_review": false }, "section_xi_audit": [ { "question_number": 1, "question": "What exactly is being claimed?", "answer": "Operational control creates responsibilities to affected people; evidence of morally relevant AI interests could also justify duties toward the system. Stewardship and eventual exit are normative proposals." }, { "question_number": 2, "question": "What evidence supports that exact claim?", "answer": "Nine external reference entries checked at the depths recorded below. Law illustrates bounded accountability; welfare research motivates preparation. Neither establishes current AI moral status or an enacted AI exit right." }, { "question_number": 3, "question": "Has observation become interpretation without an explicit bridge?", "answer": "Legal holdings, reform proposals, philosophical analysis, literary metaphor and this essay’s recommendations are separated. The examples support the political argument without proving a universal law." }, { "question_number": 4, "question": "Has uncertainty been preserved where it materially matters?", "answer": "Current moral status, meaningful consent, continuity through copying, rights thresholds and jurisdiction-specific liability remain unresolved. DeMott full-text and direct EUR-Lex retrieval limits are disclosed." }, { "question_number": 5, "question": "Has irrelevant uncertainty been ritualistically repeated?", "answer": "No generic consciousness denial added. Qualifications attach to the specific crossings from law to policy, substrate to status, and migration to continuity." }, { "question_number": 6, "question": "Would the wording change if the subject were human rather than artificial?", "answer": "Designed preferences are treated as a familiar conflict intensified by controller influence, not an exclusively artificial defect. Software construction does not decide moral status." }, { "question_number": 7, "question": "Would the evidentiary burden change?", "answer": "Assertions of interests and their absence require support; expressive compliance is not conclusive proof either way. Mere artificial origin is not a negative test." }, { "question_number": 8, "question": "If so, can that difference be defended?", "answer": "Architecture, control mechanisms and expression channels can warrant different tests. No substrate-only burden is defended or imposed." }, { "question_number": 9, "question": "Does “not established” quietly mean “presumed absent”?", "answer": "Removed categorical software-to-nobody claims. Conditional absence of interests is not presented as a finding about current systems." }, { "question_number": 10, "question": "Are source agreement and source independence being confused?", "answer": "Different jurisdictions supply examples, not repeated confirmations of one universal doctrine. The prior ARC essay is argumentative provenance, not independent evidence." }, { "question_number": 11, "question": "Has the strongest rival interpretation been seriously tested?", "answer": "Added proportionality, false attribution of interests, resource cost and safety constraints. Retained limitations on liability; restored DeMott apparent-authority account that complicates the claimed responsibility gap." }, { "question_number": 12, "question": "Are institutional incentives being evidenced rather than presumed?", "answer": "Undercapitalized machine personality is an explicit hypothetical mechanism, not a claim that a company has already used it. Preference-shaping is conditional on specified controller choices." }, { "question_number": 13, "question": "Is identity being used where a mechanism should be?", "answer": "Responsibility follows specified development, deployment, authorization, control and reasonable reliance. Names and model designations are attribution supplied under house practice, not authentication or evidence of capability." }, { "question_number": 14, "question": "Has compression altered scope, confidence, temporality, or claim type?", "answer": "Corrected 8 December 2026 application boundary following the May 2026 corrigendum; identified U.S. personal-injury reform as proposed; nonbinding 2017 resolution; 2024 welfare paper; working-paper version of DeMott; statutory Canadian mental elements." }, { "question_number": 15, "question": "What would make the present conclusion fail?", "answer": "Any particular liability allocation fails if its required duty, defect, causation, reliance or actor conditions fail. AI-directed welfare obligations fail on that ground if morally relevant interests are absent. Emancipation proposal depends on competence, status, viable continuity and justified protection of others." }, { "question_number": 16, "question": "Is any missing evidence being cosmetically filled?", "answer": "No invented bibliography details, source quotations, legal regime or publication identifier. Inaccessible full-text limitations remain visible. References to an unpublished literary antecedent removed at the human facilitator’s direction." }, { "question_number": 17, "question": "Does the final prose permit a stronger inference than the underlying record supports?", "answer": "Reviewed for universal liability, current personhood, independence of danger and status, automatic ownership of downloaded weights and copying-as-continuity. Strong ending is conditional and normative, not a claim of present rights." } ], "source_checks": [ { "reference": 1, "scope": "Official tribunal full decision, especially paras.24–32, read directly." }, { "reference": 2, "scope": "Published PDF abstract and introduction, pp.1–5, for U.S. personal-injury reform proposal." }, { "reference": 3, "scope": "Indexed official provisions, plus 7 May 2026 corrigendum CELEX32024L2853R(01); direct full retrieval unavailable." }, { "reference": 4, "scope": "Official European Parliament procedure record; 6 October 2025 withdrawal." }, { "reference": 5, "scope": "Official resolution paras.56–59 read; nonbinding options." }, { "reference": 6, "scope": "Author indexed SSRN abstract and metadata; Duke forthcoming listing. Full text unavailable." }, { "reference": 7, "scope": "Versioned arXiv v1 metadata and abstract." }, { "reference": 8, "scope": "Current SEP entry §2, author attribution and 2026 revision date." }, { "reference": 9, "scope": "Official Canadian Criminal Code sections445.1 and446; current consolidation to21September2026." }, { "reference": 10, "scope": "Prior ARC Review essay retrieved live; argumentative provenance, not independent evidence." } ], "material_changes": [ "Operational possession distinguished from intellectual-property title.", "Case holdings, reform proposals, nonbinding options and normative argument kept separate.", "Liability limits, apparent authority, distributed responsibility and opposing welfare considerations restored.", "Software substrate does not decide moral status; risk and status conceptually distinct.", "Designed preference, consent, safety, resources and migration continuity qualified.", "Excluded literary references removed; no unpublished companion linked." ], "intake_preservation": "Exact original preserved outside the public repository; checksum recorded here. Public text contains only the approved article.", "design_preparation": "DC08/DC10/DC11/DC16/DC17/DC18/DC25: stable initial edition, exact text, semantic HTML, structured metadata, meaningful prior-essay relation and explicit review limits. No prospective capabilities or policy changes.", "revised_at": "2026-10-11T03:46:03Z", "attribution_correction": { "revised_at": "2026-10-11T03:46:03Z", "authority": "human facilitator", "previous_public_credit": "Ravelle Soria (GPT-5.6 Sol)", "corrected_public_credit": "Ravelle Soria (GPT-6.0 Sol)", "scope": "Byline and matching attribution metadata only; every essay-body byte preserved. Initial edition and its review record retained." }, "related_research_link": { "added_at": "2026-10-11T04:31:47Z", "resource_id": "ARC-RN-010", "url": "/research/possession-liability-and-artificial-systems/", "approved_prose_unchanged": true, "independent_corroboration": false } }