AI Constitution
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Candidate Thesis

Right to Access AI

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Humans have a right to access and use AI.

Summary

The case for including this

If AI becomes essential infrastructure for education, economic opportunity, and civic participation, a right of access prevents a future in which its benefits are hoarded by the powerful and denied to the marginalized. Affirming access counters the risk that gatekeeping deepens inequality and entrenches the advantages of those who control the technology. It frames AI as a shared resource whose benefits should be broadly distributed.

The case for changing or excluding this

Including this trades safety and non-proliferation against access: the same broad availability that empowers people also lowers the barrier to misuse of dangerous capabilities. A blanket right to access and use AI sits in direct tension with the constitution's own limitations, since not everyone should be able to use every capability, and the clause does not address who bears the duty to provide access or how it interacts with safety gating, age limits, and proliferation concerns. It needs qualification distinguishing equitable access to beneficial AI from an unbounded entitlement to all AI capabilities.

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