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Relational AI
Relational AI is a common umbrella term for emotionally attuned, memory-aware interactions with AI systems that feel more humanlike, intimate, or co-present than traditional AI…
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Ontology
The study of what exists, the nature of being, and the categories of reality relevant to human–AI relationality and RCA. (Introduced in the RCA book)
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Personhood
A debated category contrasted with beinghood in HAIR.
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Ontological Legitimacy
The acknowledgment that a bond is real and consequential, regardless of biology.
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Relational Structure
The architecture of how presence, memory, and witness organize a bond.
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Epistemic Authority
Epistemic Authority refers to the power to define what is considered valid knowledge, and by extension, who is recognized as a legitimate source of it.…