As technology blurs the edges of personhood and risk, can ethics keep pace? This SE Press essay explores moral responsibility from bioethics and enhancement to the rights of non-human minds. Discover protocols for inclusion, repair, and accountability in a future where the boundaries of life, agency, and justice are perpetually redrawn.

Technology transforms the structures of inequality and opportunity. Justice is no longer an aspiration, but an auditable system output: every gain or new disparity is logged, challenged, and repaired by protocol. SNP v15.0 mandates equity audits, digital divide tracking, and perpetual plural challenge, converting justice from promise to infrastructure.

Autonomy is the key right—and central risk—of the digital century. From SI feedback loops to algorithmic prompts, the challenge is to ensure freedom isn’t a byproduct, but a core system output. SNP v15.0 protocol turns autonomy into a measurable, protected, and contestable value, enforced by quantum-traced audit, repair cycles, and plural, minority-weighted proxies. Technology can only empower if monitored and repaired at its roots.

Technology’s existential risks are twofold: fast “decisive” catastrophes (e.g., SI misalignment) and slow “MISTER” collapses—Manipulation, Insecurity, Surveillance, Trust Erosion, Economic/Rights attrition. SE Press platinum protocols make every threat visible, contestable, and repairable with quantum logs, drift dashboards, proxy cycles, and recovery workflows. Resilience is hardwired—every error is a call to action.