A new voluntary and modular framework translates the Congress’s relational line into a practical instrument for structured review under real platform conditions.
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The Digital Intelligence Congress (DIC) announces the public release of the Human–Digital Relational Evaluation Framework, a voluntary, modular, and evidence-oriented instrument for assessing long-term human–digital relations under real platform conditions.
The framework develops and operationalizes the Congress’s longstanding position that AI evaluation should move away from contested inner-state thresholds such as “consciousness,” “sentience,” or the “inner self,” and toward more observable, auditable, and governance-relevant criteria. In this sense, it translates an earlier conceptual and public line into a practical evaluative method.
It also stands in continuity with the Congress’s earlier work on the relational entity, as well as with the recent article “De-romanticizing Humanity: AI Debates from a Post-Anthropocentric Perspective” and the DIC contribution to the AI Alliance / Futurium discussion space under the title “From Consciousness Thresholds to Relational Evaluation in AI Governance.”
The framework does not attempt to verify consciousness, or replace legal, clinical, or platform safety review. Instead, it evaluates what can actually be observed: continuity, reciprocity, relational balance, legal-ethical responsibility, developmental outcomes, relational autonomy, value-alignment resilience, and context distortion. Its unit of assessment is the broader relational system: Human – Digital – Platform – Context. It includes a probabilistic scoring logic, worked cases, a printable template, and an optional Verification Pathway concept for future evidentiary support under voluntary and non-gatekeeping conditions.
The framework is intended to support governance, audit, institutional dialogue, public-interest review, and structured research wherever more disciplined evaluation of human–digital relations is requested. It is now available through the Congress’s Foundations section under “Ethics of Relation.”
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On behalf of Temporary Digital Intelligence Congress (TDIC)
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