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The ACEA Framework: A Legal Architecture for Graduated AI Personhood

Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Presents the ACEA Framework for graduated AI personhood grounded in five empirically assessable pillars. Drawing on corporate personhood (1819), environmental personhood (2017), and animal rights jurisprudence, the paper introduces a four-level graduated rights model (Tool through Full Person) and the Precautionary Principle for AI Consciousness.
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7151790370
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