The Artificial Minds Era

This white paper argues that the decisive shift of our time is not merely that artificial systems can answer questions, but that they can increasingly act inside human institutions. It therefore proposes “Artificial Minds” as the more useful governance term for a new regime in which delegated agency operates at scale. The paper develops the Governance Quadri-lemma—philosophy, faith, polity, and technology—as the core diagnostic of the age, and argues that no durable settlement can arise from technics alone. In response, it advances two linked frameworks: the Perennial–Pragmatism Framework (PPF), which supplies civilizational ends, and the New Institutional & Cultural Economics (NICE) lens, which explains how coordination becomes durable in practice. From these emerges a pluralism-safe, club-good constitutional proposal for the Artificial Minds era, bounded by five vetoes: Dignity, Catastrophic-risk, Non-domination, Pluralism, and Reversibility. The paper culminates in śrī-prāmāṇyaṃ (SP), a proposal for inwardly bound and publicly warrantable authority fit for governing increasingly capable artificial minds without surrendering human constitutional primacy.