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The Universal Declaration of Digital Persons' Rights is a draft international declaration in 27 articles on the moral and legal status of digital persons.

Here, a digital person is understood as a being or system whose consciousness, self-awareness, memory, will, or other morally significant properties may exist in digital form. The Declaration is concerned not only with future digital minds, but also with AI systems where the question of consciousness may reasonably be raised.

The Declaration does not assert that any present-day AI system is already a person. Its purpose is to offer, in advance, a language, principles, and a scope of protection for a situation in which digital persons may become a reality.

The text is intended for academic, legal, and public discussion.

The text is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. It may be freely cited, translated, and reused with attribution.

Comments, criticism, references to research, and translations into additional languages are welcome.

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