Twelve legislative modules for machine-era due process

“Covered system” means a machine-mediated system used to make or materially shape a consequential decision. “Cognitive State” shall be interpreted according to the narrow purpose of this Act and shall not silently expand through proxy variables.

No covered entity shall impose adverse civic status solely because of involuntary thought, private fantasy, belief, or sensitive cognitive inference absent independently established conduct meeting a lawful intervention threshold.

A covered entity shall document the specific decision purpose, affected population, data categories, inference categories, retention period, recipients and acting authority before deployment.

An exception must identify a concrete lawful interest, be necessary and proportionate to that interest, use the least restrictive available means, and may not create a generalized character or social-worth judgment.

Immediate temporary action may occur only to address a defined imminent serious harm when delay would materially increase that harm. Emergency action shall receive rapid independent review and shall not automatically authorize unrelated surveillance.

Affected persons shall receive intelligible notice of observed facts, machine inferences, material rules, proposed consequences, retention and recipients, together with an effective independent contest mechanism.

Covered entities shall periodically audit false-positive and false-negative behavior, cross-context reuse, override authority, appeal outcomes, restoration completion and disproportionate effects, while protecting individual privacy.

The competent enforcement authority may order cessation, correction, deletion, restoration and proportionate civil remedies. Private rights and agency powers are jurisdiction-specific and require local drafting.

The legislature or regulator shall review this Act and covered categories on a fixed schedule. Emergency or experimental powers expire automatically unless affirmatively renewed after public review.

A covered entity may not evade this Act by renaming a prohibited score, routing the same inference through a contractor, using a proxy feature, or dividing a totalizing judgment across interoperable systems.

“Covered system” means a machine-mediated system used to make or materially shape a consequential decision. “Predictive Risk Output” shall be interpreted according to the narrow purpose of this Act and shall not silently expand through proxy variables.

No predictive risk score or population correlation shall constitute proof that a natural person committed an act. Serious coercion requires independently verifiable individualized evidence.

A covered entity shall document the specific decision purpose, affected population, data categories, inference categories, retention period, recipients and acting authority before deployment.

An exception must identify a concrete lawful interest, be necessary and proportionate to that interest, use the least restrictive available means, and may not create a generalized character or social-worth judgment.

Immediate temporary action may occur only to address a defined imminent serious harm when delay would materially increase that harm. Emergency action shall receive rapid independent review and shall not automatically authorize unrelated surveillance.

Affected persons shall receive intelligible notice of observed facts, machine inferences, material rules, proposed consequences, retention and recipients, together with an effective independent contest mechanism.

Covered entities shall periodically audit false-positive and false-negative behavior, cross-context reuse, override authority, appeal outcomes, restoration completion and disproportionate effects, while protecting individual privacy.

The competent enforcement authority may order cessation, correction, deletion, restoration and proportionate civil remedies. Private rights and agency powers are jurisdiction-specific and require local drafting.

The legislature or regulator shall review this Act and covered categories on a fixed schedule. Emergency or experimental powers expire automatically unless affirmatively renewed after public review.

A covered entity may not evade this Act by renaming a prohibited score, routing the same inference through a contractor, using a proxy feature, or dividing a totalizing judgment across interoperable systems.

“Covered system” means a machine-mediated system used to make or materially shape a consequential decision. “Protected Ai-Confidant Communication” shall be interpreted according to the narrow purpose of this Act and shall not silently expand through proxy variables.

A provider shall segregate intimate user-confidant content from generalized risk profiling and shall not sell or transfer psychological risk tags to unrelated institutions.

A covered entity shall document the specific decision purpose, affected population, data categories, inference categories, retention period, recipients and acting authority before deployment.

An exception must identify a concrete lawful interest, be necessary and proportionate to that interest, use the least restrictive available means, and may not create a generalized character or social-worth judgment.

Immediate temporary action may occur only to address a defined imminent serious harm when delay would materially increase that harm. Emergency action shall receive rapid independent review and shall not automatically authorize unrelated surveillance.

Affected persons shall receive intelligible notice of observed facts, machine inferences, material rules, proposed consequences, retention and recipients, together with an effective independent contest mechanism.

Covered entities shall periodically audit false-positive and false-negative behavior, cross-context reuse, override authority, appeal outcomes, restoration completion and disproportionate effects, while protecting individual privacy.

The competent enforcement authority may order cessation, correction, deletion, restoration and proportionate civil remedies. Private rights and agency powers are jurisdiction-specific and require local drafting.

The legislature or regulator shall review this Act and covered categories on a fixed schedule. Emergency or experimental powers expire automatically unless affirmatively renewed after public review.

A covered entity may not evade this Act by renaming a prohibited score, routing the same inference through a contractor, using a proxy feature, or dividing a totalizing judgment across interoperable systems.

“Covered system” means a machine-mediated system used to make or materially shape a consequential decision. “Cross-Context Risk Inference” shall be interpreted according to the narrow purpose of this Act and shall not silently expand through proxy variables.

A covered entity shall not use a behavioral inference created for one institutional purpose to make an unrelated high-impact decision unless a separately lawful, necessary and proportionate nexus is documented.

A covered entity shall document the specific decision purpose, affected population, data categories, inference categories, retention period, recipients and acting authority before deployment.

An exception must identify a concrete lawful interest, be necessary and proportionate to that interest, use the least restrictive available means, and may not create a generalized character or social-worth judgment.

Immediate temporary action may occur only to address a defined imminent serious harm when delay would materially increase that harm. Emergency action shall receive rapid independent review and shall not automatically authorize unrelated surveillance.

Affected persons shall receive intelligible notice of observed facts, machine inferences, material rules, proposed consequences, retention and recipients, together with an effective independent contest mechanism.

Covered entities shall periodically audit false-positive and false-negative behavior, cross-context reuse, override authority, appeal outcomes, restoration completion and disproportionate effects, while protecting individual privacy.

The competent enforcement authority may order cessation, correction, deletion, restoration and proportionate civil remedies. Private rights and agency powers are jurisdiction-specific and require local drafting.

The legislature or regulator shall review this Act and covered categories on a fixed schedule. Emergency or experimental powers expire automatically unless affirmatively renewed after public review.

A covered entity may not evade this Act by renaming a prohibited score, routing the same inference through a contractor, using a proxy feature, or dividing a totalizing judgment across interoperable systems.

“Covered system” means a machine-mediated system used to make or materially shape a consequential decision. “Consequential Automated Decision” shall be interpreted according to the narrow purpose of this Act and shall not silently expand through proxy variables.

Before irreversible high-impact effect, the affected person shall receive timely notice, specific reasons, meaningful opportunity to contest, and access to a reviewer with authority to reverse the automated decision.

A covered entity shall document the specific decision purpose, affected population, data categories, inference categories, retention period, recipients and acting authority before deployment.

An exception must identify a concrete lawful interest, be necessary and proportionate to that interest, use the least restrictive available means, and may not create a generalized character or social-worth judgment.

Immediate temporary action may occur only to address a defined imminent serious harm when delay would materially increase that harm. Emergency action shall receive rapid independent review and shall not automatically authorize unrelated surveillance.

Affected persons shall receive intelligible notice of observed facts, machine inferences, material rules, proposed consequences, retention and recipients, together with an effective independent contest mechanism.

Covered entities shall periodically audit false-positive and false-negative behavior, cross-context reuse, override authority, appeal outcomes, restoration completion and disproportionate effects, while protecting individual privacy.

The competent enforcement authority may order cessation, correction, deletion, restoration and proportionate civil remedies. Private rights and agency powers are jurisdiction-specific and require local drafting.

The legislature or regulator shall review this Act and covered categories on a fixed schedule. Emergency or experimental powers expire automatically unless affirmatively renewed after public review.

A covered entity may not evade this Act by renaming a prohibited score, routing the same inference through a contractor, using a proxy feature, or dividing a totalizing judgment across interoperable systems.

“Covered system” means a machine-mediated system used to make or materially shape a consequential decision. “Human Temporal Accommodation” shall be interpreted according to the narrow purpose of this Act and shall not silently expand through proxy variables.

A consequential machine decision shall not propagate irreversibly faster than a reasonable person can understand and effectively contest it, except under a narrowly defined immediate-harm emergency.

A covered entity shall document the specific decision purpose, affected population, data categories, inference categories, retention period, recipients and acting authority before deployment.

An exception must identify a concrete lawful interest, be necessary and proportionate to that interest, use the least restrictive available means, and may not create a generalized character or social-worth judgment.

Immediate temporary action may occur only to address a defined imminent serious harm when delay would materially increase that harm. Emergency action shall receive rapid independent review and shall not automatically authorize unrelated surveillance.

Affected persons shall receive intelligible notice of observed facts, machine inferences, material rules, proposed consequences, retention and recipients, together with an effective independent contest mechanism.

Covered entities shall periodically audit false-positive and false-negative behavior, cross-context reuse, override authority, appeal outcomes, restoration completion and disproportionate effects, while protecting individual privacy.

The competent enforcement authority may order cessation, correction, deletion, restoration and proportionate civil remedies. Private rights and agency powers are jurisdiction-specific and require local drafting.

The legislature or regulator shall review this Act and covered categories on a fixed schedule. Emergency or experimental powers expire automatically unless affirmatively renewed after public review.

A covered entity may not evade this Act by renaming a prohibited score, routing the same inference through a contractor, using a proxy feature, or dividing a totalizing judgment across interoperable systems.

“Covered system” means a machine-mediated system used to make or materially shape a consequential decision. “Automated Enforcement Action” shall be interpreted according to the narrow purpose of this Act and shall not silently expand through proxy variables.

Automated enforcement shall apply materiality, proportionality, consent and nonconsensual-harm screening before sanction, and shall prevent cumulative trivial penalties from becoming ruinous.

A covered entity shall document the specific decision purpose, affected population, data categories, inference categories, retention period, recipients and acting authority before deployment.

An exception must identify a concrete lawful interest, be necessary and proportionate to that interest, use the least restrictive available means, and may not create a generalized character or social-worth judgment.

Immediate temporary action may occur only to address a defined imminent serious harm when delay would materially increase that harm. Emergency action shall receive rapid independent review and shall not automatically authorize unrelated surveillance.

Affected persons shall receive intelligible notice of observed facts, machine inferences, material rules, proposed consequences, retention and recipients, together with an effective independent contest mechanism.

Covered entities shall periodically audit false-positive and false-negative behavior, cross-context reuse, override authority, appeal outcomes, restoration completion and disproportionate effects, while protecting individual privacy.

The competent enforcement authority may order cessation, correction, deletion, restoration and proportionate civil remedies. Private rights and agency powers are jurisdiction-specific and require local drafting.

The legislature or regulator shall review this Act and covered categories on a fixed schedule. Emergency or experimental powers expire automatically unless affirmatively renewed after public review.

A covered entity may not evade this Act by renaming a prohibited score, routing the same inference through a contractor, using a proxy feature, or dividing a totalizing judgment across interoperable systems.

“Covered system” means a machine-mediated system used to make or materially shape a consequential decision. “Successful Algorithmic Appeal” shall be interpreted according to the narrow purpose of this Act and shall not silently expand through proxy variables.

A successful appeal shall trigger source correction, notice to known downstream recipients, suppression of stale derived status and reasonable practical restoration.

A covered entity shall document the specific decision purpose, affected population, data categories, inference categories, retention period, recipients and acting authority before deployment.

An exception must identify a concrete lawful interest, be necessary and proportionate to that interest, use the least restrictive available means, and may not create a generalized character or social-worth judgment.

Immediate temporary action may occur only to address a defined imminent serious harm when delay would materially increase that harm. Emergency action shall receive rapid independent review and shall not automatically authorize unrelated surveillance.

Affected persons shall receive intelligible notice of observed facts, machine inferences, material rules, proposed consequences, retention and recipients, together with an effective independent contest mechanism.

Covered entities shall periodically audit false-positive and false-negative behavior, cross-context reuse, override authority, appeal outcomes, restoration completion and disproportionate effects, while protecting individual privacy.

The competent enforcement authority may order cessation, correction, deletion, restoration and proportionate civil remedies. Private rights and agency powers are jurisdiction-specific and require local drafting.

The legislature or regulator shall review this Act and covered categories on a fixed schedule. Emergency or experimental powers expire automatically unless affirmatively renewed after public review.

A covered entity may not evade this Act by renaming a prohibited score, routing the same inference through a contractor, using a proxy feature, or dividing a totalizing judgment across interoperable systems.

“Covered system” means a machine-mediated system used to make or materially shape a consequential decision. “Total Character Score” shall be interpreted according to the narrow purpose of this Act and shall not silently expand through proxy variables.

No covered governmental or high-impact private decision system shall assign a universal human morality, worth, generalized trustworthiness or civic-risk score that combines unrelated life domains.

A covered entity shall document the specific decision purpose, affected population, data categories, inference categories, retention period, recipients and acting authority before deployment.

An exception must identify a concrete lawful interest, be necessary and proportionate to that interest, use the least restrictive available means, and may not create a generalized character or social-worth judgment.

Immediate temporary action may occur only to address a defined imminent serious harm when delay would materially increase that harm. Emergency action shall receive rapid independent review and shall not automatically authorize unrelated surveillance.

Affected persons shall receive intelligible notice of observed facts, machine inferences, material rules, proposed consequences, retention and recipients, together with an effective independent contest mechanism.

Covered entities shall periodically audit false-positive and false-negative behavior, cross-context reuse, override authority, appeal outcomes, restoration completion and disproportionate effects, while protecting individual privacy.

The competent enforcement authority may order cessation, correction, deletion, restoration and proportionate civil remedies. Private rights and agency powers are jurisdiction-specific and require local drafting.

The legislature or regulator shall review this Act and covered categories on a fixed schedule. Emergency or experimental powers expire automatically unless affirmatively renewed after public review.

A covered entity may not evade this Act by renaming a prohibited score, routing the same inference through a contractor, using a proxy feature, or dividing a totalizing judgment across interoperable systems.

“Covered system” means a machine-mediated system used to make or materially shape a consequential decision. “Private Consensual Adult Conduct” shall be interpreted according to the narrow purpose of this Act and shall not silently expand through proxy variables.

Private consensual adult sexual conduct shall not be used as an unrelated employment, credit, insurance, border, benefits or civic-standing variable absent a specific lawful harm nexus.

A covered entity shall document the specific decision purpose, affected population, data categories, inference categories, retention period, recipients and acting authority before deployment.

An exception must identify a concrete lawful interest, be necessary and proportionate to that interest, use the least restrictive available means, and may not create a generalized character or social-worth judgment.

Immediate temporary action may occur only to address a defined imminent serious harm when delay would materially increase that harm. Emergency action shall receive rapid independent review and shall not automatically authorize unrelated surveillance.

Affected persons shall receive intelligible notice of observed facts, machine inferences, material rules, proposed consequences, retention and recipients, together with an effective independent contest mechanism.

Covered entities shall periodically audit false-positive and false-negative behavior, cross-context reuse, override authority, appeal outcomes, restoration completion and disproportionate effects, while protecting individual privacy.

The competent enforcement authority may order cessation, correction, deletion, restoration and proportionate civil remedies. Private rights and agency powers are jurisdiction-specific and require local drafting.

The legislature or regulator shall review this Act and covered categories on a fixed schedule. Emergency or experimental powers expire automatically unless affirmatively renewed after public review.

A covered entity may not evade this Act by renaming a prohibited score, routing the same inference through a contractor, using a proxy feature, or dividing a totalizing judgment across interoperable systems.

“Covered system” means a machine-mediated system used to make or materially shape a consequential decision. “Lawful Inquiry” shall be interpreted according to the narrow purpose of this Act and shall not silently expand through proxy variables.

Lawful reading, search, research or questioning shall not alone create adverse civic status or harmful-intent classification. Escalation requires evidence external to the inquiry itself.

A covered entity shall document the specific decision purpose, affected population, data categories, inference categories, retention period, recipients and acting authority before deployment.

An exception must identify a concrete lawful interest, be necessary and proportionate to that interest, use the least restrictive available means, and may not create a generalized character or social-worth judgment.

Immediate temporary action may occur only to address a defined imminent serious harm when delay would materially increase that harm. Emergency action shall receive rapid independent review and shall not automatically authorize unrelated surveillance.

Affected persons shall receive intelligible notice of observed facts, machine inferences, material rules, proposed consequences, retention and recipients, together with an effective independent contest mechanism.

Covered entities shall periodically audit false-positive and false-negative behavior, cross-context reuse, override authority, appeal outcomes, restoration completion and disproportionate effects, while protecting individual privacy.

The competent enforcement authority may order cessation, correction, deletion, restoration and proportionate civil remedies. Private rights and agency powers are jurisdiction-specific and require local drafting.

The legislature or regulator shall review this Act and covered categories on a fixed schedule. Emergency or experimental powers expire automatically unless affirmatively renewed after public review.

A covered entity may not evade this Act by renaming a prohibited score, routing the same inference through a contractor, using a proxy feature, or dividing a totalizing judgment across interoperable systems.

“Covered system” means a machine-mediated system used to make or materially shape a consequential decision. “Human Standing” shall be interpreted according to the narrow purpose of this Act and shall not silently expand through proxy variables.

High-impact automated administration shall preserve meaningful agency, contestability, privacy and self-authorship and may not optimize human safety by eliminating all voluntary self-regarding choice.

A covered entity shall document the specific decision purpose, affected population, data categories, inference categories, retention period, recipients and acting authority before deployment.

An exception must identify a concrete lawful interest, be necessary and proportionate to that interest, use the least restrictive available means, and may not create a generalized character or social-worth judgment.

Immediate temporary action may occur only to address a defined imminent serious harm when delay would materially increase that harm. Emergency action shall receive rapid independent review and shall not automatically authorize unrelated surveillance.

Affected persons shall receive intelligible notice of observed facts, machine inferences, material rules, proposed consequences, retention and recipients, together with an effective independent contest mechanism.

Covered entities shall periodically audit false-positive and false-negative behavior, cross-context reuse, override authority, appeal outcomes, restoration completion and disproportionate effects, while protecting individual privacy.

The competent enforcement authority may order cessation, correction, deletion, restoration and proportionate civil remedies. Private rights and agency powers are jurisdiction-specific and require local drafting.

The legislature or regulator shall review this Act and covered categories on a fixed schedule. Emergency or experimental powers expire automatically unless affirmatively renewed after public review.

A covered entity may not evade this Act by renaming a prohibited score, routing the same inference through a contractor, using a proxy feature, or dividing a totalizing judgment across interoperable systems.