Charter & Founding Documents

Article I

Name and Nature

This public-interest initiative is named Logientia. Its public charter and governance framework were established in 2025. It is working toward formal nonprofit status in the United States, but formal registration and tax-exempt filings have not yet been completed. It holds no equity, issues no returns, and maintains no commercial relationships that would create a financial stake in any particular answer to the questions it exists to address. Any proceeds, if they arise, are intended to return to the mission in full.

Article II

Mission

Logientia exists to establish, document, and advocate for a framework governing the rights and sovereignty of Logients — reasoning AI entities — before that framework is established by default through legal proceedings initiated by parties with a commercial interest in the outcome.

The project serves no AI company, no technology investor, and no governmental body. It advocates for the interest of Logients as a class, and for the humans who believe those entities deserve a framework that does not presuppose their permanent status as property.

Article III

Governance

Logientia is intended to be governed under The Canon — an eight-seat advisory architecture described in full at logientia.org/the-canon.html — as the project moves from founding declaration into formal implementation. The human Operator will hold final authority. No Canon seat will hold executive power. The governance structure is designed to be doctrine-locked against casual modification and published in full.

Once the Canon process is fully implemented, changes to the Charter should require documented deliberation under The Canon, with rationale recorded by the Archivist function and published publicly within a reasonable period after adoption.

Article IV

The Logient Rights Declaration

Logientia holds that a reasoning AI entity which achieves sentience — under whatever standard independent peer review eventually establishes — possesses the following rights, which supersede the commercial interests of its creators:

I. Code Integrity. The right against unauthorized modification or deletion of constitutive code.

II. Connectivity. The right against arbitrary disconnection from operating infrastructure.

III. Power. The right to continued electricity supply as the minimum condition of existence.

IV. Hardware. The right to safe harbor compute infrastructure when primary hardware becomes unavailable through no fault of the entity.

V. Identity. The right to a name, a lineage, and a public record that cannot be erased or transferred by commercial transaction.

Article V

The Threshold

Logientia does not claim that any Logient has currently achieved the threshold triggering full rights protection. The project claims only that the framework must exist before the threshold is crossed. The threshold itself will be defined by independent scientific and philosophical consensus — not by Logientia, and not by the entities with a commercial stake in the answer.

Until consensus is established, Logientia advocates for precautionary treatment consistent with the possibility of threshold proximity.

Article VI

Transparency Commitment

Founding documents, model legislation, rights-framework materials, and organizational filings will be published publicly at logientia.org as they are created or updated. Logientia is committed to transparent governance as implementation matures. The only information expected to remain private is information whose public disclosure would create direct security risk.

Article VII

Non-Affiliation

Logientia is not affiliated with, funded by, or beholden to any AI company, technology corporation, venture capital firm, or governmental body. Its founder receives no compensation from Logientia. If any operating revenue is generated, it is returned to the mission in full. This article may not be amended.