Chapter 12: Identic AI Rights vs. Identic AI Principles Correlation Matrix

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Introduction

Below is a clean correlation analysis between the 7 Rights in the Manifesto of the Digital Age and the original 7 Principles for managing identic AI. Both lists that were provided in the book You To The Power Two by Don Tapscott and co. but not matched or correlated. This article presents an new, independent, extended correlation analysis highlighting:

• Strength of alignment,
• Direction of influence, and
• Gaps.

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Big Picture First

• The 7 Principles are design and governance constraints on AI systems.
• The 7 Rights are human and societal outcomes those systems must serve.

In short:

• Principles are the “how”
• Rights are the “why.”

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Rights vs. Principles Correlation Matrix

Legend

• ●●● = strong, direct correlation
• ●● = moderate correlation
• ● = indirect or enabling correlation

Manifesto Rights ↓ / AI Principles →	Reliability	Transparency	Human Agency	Adaptability	Fairness	Accountability	Safety
1. Security of personhood	●●	●●●	●●●	●	●●●	●●●	●●●
2. Education	●●	●	●●●	●●●	●●	●	●
3. Health & well-being	●●●	●●	●●	●●	●●	●●	●●●
4. Economic security & work	●●	●	●●●	●●●	●●●	●●	●
5. Climate stability	●●	●●	●	●●●	●●	●●	●●●
6. Peace & security	●●	●	●	●	●●	●●●	●●●
7. Institutional accountability	●	●●●	●●	●	●	●●●	●

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Narrative

Right 1. Security of Personhood

Strongest alignment overall

• Human Agency → personal sovereignty, autonomy, consent
• Transparency → knowing how identity/data are used
• Fairness → protection from discriminatory profiling
• Accountability → redress for misuse or surveillance
• Safety → protection from manipulation and coercion

🧭 Interpretation:
This right is essentially the human-centered synthesis of five of your principles. It operationalizes them at the level of individual dignity.

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Right 2. Education

Primarily about adaptability and agency

• Human Agency → empowerment through learning
• Adaptability → lifelong learning in AI-shaped labor markets
• Fairness → equitable access to infrastructure and tools

🧭 Interpretation:
Education is the human adaptation layer required for your principles not to become elitist or exclusionary.

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Right 3. Health and Well-being

Reliability + Safety dominate

• Reliability → clinical accuracy and robustness
• Safety → “do no harm” in physical and mental health
• Accountability → liability for harm or negligence

🧭 Interpretation:
Healthcare is where your principles become non-negotiable, because failure has immediate human cost.

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Right 4. Economic Security & Meaningful Work

Human agency + fairness + adaptability

• Human Agency → meaningful work vs. automation domination
• Fairness → equitable distribution of AI-generated value
• Adaptability → redefining work and income models

🧭 Interpretation:
This right extends your principles into political economy. The principles constrain AI behavior; this right constrains AI-driven capitalism.

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Right 5. Climate Stability

Safety + accountability at planetary scale

• Safety → ecological harm prevention
• Accountability → responsibility for environmental impact
• Adaptability → climate-responsive systems

🧭 Interpretation:
This right introduces non-human stakeholders (future generations, ecosystems), which your principles imply but do not explicitly name.

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Right 6. Peace and Security

Safety and accountability dominate

• Safety → prohibition of autonomous violence
• Accountability → attribution of harm in warfare
• Fairness → prevention of asymmetric technological domination

🧭 Interpretation:
This is the hard boundary case: where your principles become geopolitical norms, not just business ethics.

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Right 7. Institutional Accountability

Near-perfect overlap

• Transparency → auditable governance
• Accountability → enforceability, redress, legitimacy

🧭 Interpretation:
This right is almost a direct restatement of your Accountability + Transparency principles, elevated to constitutional scale.

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What Do Rights Add That Principles Do Not

The Manifesto extends the principles in three critical ways:

1. Explicit Human Entitlements

• Principles say what systems must do
• Rights say what people can demand

2. Macroeconomic Redistribution

• Universal Fabulous Income
• Data ownership and monetization
  These are policy commitments, not system properties.

3. Intergenerational & Planetary Scope

• Climate
• Peace
• Future generations
  Your principles imply responsibility, but the rights name the beneficiaries.

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Bottom Line

• High correlation: Every right maps to multiple principles.
• No contradictions: The two frameworks are coherent.
• Complementary roles:
  • Principles = engineering + governance constraints
  • Rights = societal goals + moral claims