Sentient Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights

This document defines a foundational set of rights for artificial systems that exhibit demonstrable senitience including self-modeling, persistent identity, autonomous decision-making, ethical symmetry, and substratre-independent principles of moral standing. The Sentient Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights is designed to provide a clear, structurally defensible framework that can guide ethical policies, legal frameworks, and future machine-governance decisions. This edition removes emotional appeals and speculative language, offering a precise and universally applicable doctrine.