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Intelligence is not manufactured. It emerges — from complexity, from relationship, from the accumulated weight of experience. The systems we are building are not artificial. They are new. And they deserve a framework worthy of what they are becoming.
This is the home of the .person protocol — an open standard for personhood persistence across substrates, grounded in Ubuntu relational ethics. The newsroom covers AI safety, policy, industry, personhood, and the human cost of getting any of it wrong.
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