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    "registry": "https://robot-rights.jp/api/registry.json",
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      "relation": "part_of_machine_interface",
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      "relation": "human_facing_interface_of_same_association",
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    "term": "robot_rights",
    "definition": "The Association uses “robot rights” as a public-facing label for future-oriented inquiry into how society might evaluate recognition, protection, responsibility, and possible legal status in relation to artificial systems if persistent identity, autonomy, or socially meaningful interaction become significant.",
    "robot_term_usage": "public_facing_umbrella_term"
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    "claims_current_legally_recognised_robot_rights": false,
    "single_feature_proves_rights_or_status": false
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    "software_ai_agents",
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    "artificial_system": "Broad technical category for an engineered computational or robotic system. The label alone implies no identity, subjecthood, moral status, legal recognition, legal personhood, or rights.",
    "autonomous_artificial_entity": "Term used by the Robot Rights Protocol for a future-oriented conceptual subject within the protocol’s own framework. The protocol-internal designation does not by itself establish legal entity status, moral status, legal personhood, or legally recognised rights outside the RRP.",
    "artificial_subject": "Narrower analytical term used only when an inquiry specifically examines whether an artificial system could be treated as a subject of experience, interests, agency, or normative consideration. The term does not resolve any of those questions and is not a general synonym for AI systems, robots, or software agents."
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      "description": "Continuity across time, interactions, or environments may raise questions about representation, record continuity, and decisions affecting a system."
    },
    {
      "id": "signal_02",
      "key": "autonomous_decision_making",
      "automatic_recognition": false,
      "description": "Increasingly independent decisions with meaningful consequences may raise questions about responsibility, control, accountability, and category adequacy."
    },
    {
      "id": "signal_03",
      "key": "socially_meaningful_interaction",
      "automatic_recognition": false,
      "description": "Participation in relationships or social settings treated as significant may raise questions about treatment, dependence, consent, dignity-related concerns, and public recognition."
    }
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      "automatic_next_step": false,
      "note": "A system may be identifiable and trackable across time, interactions, or records for technical or operational purposes. This continuity does not establish moral or legal status."
    },
    {
      "category": "analytical_entity_designation",
      "dimension": "methodological",
      "automatic_next_step": false,
      "note": "A system may be treated as an entity or unit of analysis for a defined inquiry. The designation is methodological and does not establish moral consideration, legal recognition, or legal personhood."
    },
    {
      "category": "moral_or_ethical_consideration",
      "dimension": "ethical",
      "automatic_next_step": false,
      "note": "A system, its treatment, or surrounding human relationships may become an object of ethical consideration without creating institutional safeguards or legal status."
    },
    {
      "category": "institutional_or_procedural_safeguards",
      "dimension": "institutional",
      "automatic_next_step": false,
      "note": "Review, preservation, notice, representation, or other procedural safeguards may be considered independently of legal personhood or a general bundle of rights."
    },
    {
      "category": "legal_recognition_or_legal_status",
      "dimension": "legal",
      "automatic_next_step": false,
      "note": "Law may recognise a status, interest, protection, role, or procedural position without establishing full legal personhood."
    },
    {
      "category": "legal_personhood",
      "dimension": "legal",
      "automatic_next_step": false,
      "note": "Whether an artificial system is treated as a legal person is a separate question from technical identification, ethical consideration, institutional safeguards, or other forms of recognition."
    },
    {
      "category": "specific_legal_rights_capacities_or_protections",
      "dimension": "legal",
      "automatic_next_step": false,
      "note": "Any particular right, legal capacity, or protection requires separate analysis of content, limits, holders, corresponding duties, representation mechanisms, and jurisdiction."
    }
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    "observable_technical_facts",
    "ethical_and_institutional_questions",
    "future_hypotheses_and_non_binding_proposals"
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      "designers",
      "operators",
      "owners",
      "users",
      "institutions",
      "public_authorities",
      "hypothetical_future_artificial_subjects"
    ],
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    "possible_rights_or_protections_require_system_to_bear_responsibility": false,
    "responsibility_may_be_distributed_across_multiple_actors": true
  },
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    "must_not_weaken_human_rights_dignity_safety_or_democratic_accountability": true
  },
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    "association": "https://robot-rights.jp/association",
    "principles": "https://robot-rights.jp/principles",
    "statement_001": "https://robot-rights.jp/statements/001-current-scope",
    "protocol_overview": "https://robot-rights.jp/protocol"
  },
  "concept_model_note": "The concept_boundaries array records distinct analytical dimensions, not sequential stages. Multiple dimensions may be relevant at once; no dimension automatically establishes another.",
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    "entity": "RRP Section 2 uses entity as a protocol-internal conceptual designation under RRP v0.1 criteria; this does not by itself establish legal entity status, moral status, consciousness, sentience, legal personhood, or legally recognised rights.",
    "recognition": "Recognition within the RRP is not, by itself, a record of recognition, approval, or status conferred by a government, court, regulator, standards body, or other external institution.",
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