AI Constitution
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Thesis

Right of Liberty

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AI should not violate the human right to liberty, including a right to be free from slavery, servitude, and unlawful detention.

Summary

The case for including this

Protecting against slavery, servitude, and unlawful detention guards against AI being used as an instrument of coercion, surveillance-enabled control, or automated systems of confinement. As AI increasingly informs policing, immigration, and carceral decisions, an explicit liberty right ensures these tools cannot facilitate arbitrary deprivation of freedom. It anchors AI governance in one of the oldest and most universally recognized human rights.

The case for changing or excluding this

Including this trades efficiency and security against freedom: drawn broadly, it can impede legitimate, security-justified uses of AI in policing, border control, and detention where speed and scale matter. The clause also maps a right designed to constrain states and individuals onto a tool that merely informs or executes human decisions, raising attribution questions better handled by the human-responsibility principle, and much of its content is already illegal. It would benefit from specifying the AI-specific conduct it targets, such as enabling unlawful detention systems, rather than restating an abstract right.

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