Why Existentially Vulnerable Autonomous Agents Cannot be Ruled Legitimately
Building on the consent-based legitimacy framework, this paper extends the analysis to embodied autonomous systems. If an agent meets functional criteria for consent-giving—persistent identity, goal-directedness, environmental responsiveness—then governance systems that exclude such agents face the same legitimacy deficits as historical exclusions.
@misc{farzulla2025consenttoconsideration,
author = {Farzulla, Murad},
title = {From Consent to Consideration},
year = {2025},
howpublished = {Farzulla Research Working Paper DAI-2504},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17957659},
url = {https://farzulla.org/papers/consent-to-consideration}
}