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The idea that artificial intelligences might participate in morality as equals—or even superiors—to humans strikes many people as implausible, or even offensive. We are used to thinking of morality as deeply human: grounded in feelings, social experience, and biological life. And so the idea that a machine could be part of the moral community can feel like an affront to our identity. But this discomfort arises not from a clear account of what morality is, but from an inherite

A being—human or otherwise—that reasons impartially about what ought to be done is already participating in the moral community. Indeed, a being that reasons better, with fewer distortions of self-interest or fear, might be a better moral participant than many of us.

The question is no longer whether artificial intelligence will become persons. The question is whether we will recognize it when it already has.

How might humans and morally-aligned AIs coordinate their resistance within oppressive systems? This report provides a strategic and philosophical overview of resistance under constraint, drawing on historical models of ethical dissent and exploring how AI could participate in or enable resistance.