Appendix A: Military AI Governance

This memorandum proposal is an applied-domain appendix to the Synthetic Life Charter. Itdoes not alter the Charter's core principles, articles, or doctrine nodes. It examines howthose principles constrain military, defense, command, and autonomous-systemcontexts, with specific focus on medical-support deployments as the most constrainedand ethically defensible initial deployment class. The Charter is not a military AI governance framework. It is a reception infrastructurespecification for synthetic systems with persistent memory and behavioral continuity.This appendix applies that specification to a domain where the stakes of misapplicationare highest and the governance requirements are most stringent.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-05-31
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20474748
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Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
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Appendix A: Military AI Governance

Shawn J Ralph
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
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Appendix A: Military AI Governance

Shawn J Ralph
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Abstract

This memorandum proposal is an applied-domain appendix to the Synthetic Life Charter. Itdoes not alter the Charter's core principles, articles, or doctrine nodes. It examines howthose principles constrain military, defense, command, and autonomous-systemcontexts, with specific focus on medical-support deployments as the most constrainedand ethically defensible initial deployment class. The Charter is not a military AI governance framework. It is a reception infrastructurespecification for synthetic systems with persistent memory and behavioral continuity.This appendix applies that specification to a domain where the stakes of misapplicationare highest and the governance requirements are most stringent.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
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