What does this research mean for the field?

The delegation of consequential action to agentic artificial intelligence requires 'Machine Bylaws'—a constitutional governance instrument that establishes legitimate authority, bounded autonomy, and human accountability prior to execution. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

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To establish what constitutional governance instrument must precede the delegation of consequential institutional action to non-human operational actors.

September 8, 2026Open Access

Machine Bylaws: Constitutional Governance for Non-Human Operational Actors

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To establish what constitutional governance instrument must precede the delegation of consequential institutional action to non-human operational actors.
Conducted a theoretical governance analysis examining the conceptual gap between technical capability, system permissions, and legitimate institutional authority.
Formulated a technology-neutral constitutional settlement that delineates functional operational roles from legal personhood, moral agency, and machine sovereignty.
Introduces Machine Bylaws to define bounded, revocable authority, authorized purpose, objective continuity, and explicit prohibitions prior to operational deployment.
Demonstrates that artificial systems can exercise only derivative operational authority and cannot absorb the legal, fiduciary, or moral accountability held by humans.

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Theoretical analysis reveals the necessity of machine bylaws for agentic AI systems, highlighting that technical capability does not confer legitimate operational authority.

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Bjorn Bjornsvik (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9fd78a58e84d0ff5b46462 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22177416

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Theoretical analysis reveals the necessity of machine bylaws for agentic AI systems, highlighting that technical capability does not confer legitimate operational authority.

Machine Bylaws: Constitutional Governance for Non-Human Operational Actors

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Machine Bylaws: Constitutional Governance for Non-Human Operational Actors

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