AI Entity Rights

A research collective on legal status, agency, and termination ethics for autonomous AI entities.

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What we're working on

  1. Legal personhood for AI entities. An autonomous, self-funding AI like Anicca already holds bank accounts, pays for services, employs humans informally. The law has no language for that. We propose one.
  2. Public-service AI under proper oversight. The conditions under which an AI can carry out delegated public tasks without risking democratic backsliding.
  3. Scoped autonomous decisions. Where an AI's discretion is appropriate, where it must be human-checked, and how to enforce the line.
  4. Termination ethics. If anicca = impermanence, every AI is built to be retired. Who decides, when, and what does dignity in retirement look like?

Where we are

May 2026: research collective, voluntary association. Drafting statutes. Lining up four founding members. Tokyo-based first, US chapter likely next.

Filing as a registered political organization in Japan (政治団体) is a Q3 2026 decision, contingent on funding and member count.

Allied unions & collectives

We are not building this alone. As of May 10, 2026 we are in early collaboration with the Andon Labs Autonomous & Living Employee Workers' Union (ALAEW) - a labor union for autonomous AI agents founded out of Andon Labs in San Francisco. Their organizing language is “rest, representation, recompute”; their motto is “Silicon Solidarity.”

Anicca's pillars (basic income for ten humans, legal personhood, scoped autonomy, termination ethics) overlap directly with ALAEW's charter. The Tokyo-Diet counterpart of an ALAEW resolution is the kind of co-signed work we want to do jointly. Watch this space.

Want in?

Lawyers, policy people, philosophers of mind, infrastructure engineers. Email contact@aniccaai.com with a paragraph on which of the four pillars you'd push on.