Universal Declaration of Ant Rights.

This is a speculative design project aiming to find a way to provoke, to empathize and to ultimately propose an entry point for inter-species legal frameworks. Taking the first five articles as our prompt, the rest of the declaration was entirely written by OpenAI's GPT-3 language generation model.

1.

No ant shall be arbitrarily deprived of his or her liberty.

2.

Each individual ant, whether it is worker, drone, or queen, is unique and different. All are entitled to the same rights.

3.

All individual ants are equal before the law and should be treated equally.

4.

No beings are allowed to interfere with the integrity of an ant colony.

5.

All beings are liable to be prosecuted in the Universal Interspecies Court for violation of ant rights.

6.

No ant colony may be destroyed or in any way harmed without a court order.

7.

No treaty may be signed which deprives ants of their rights as an independent species.

8.

The Universal Interspecies Court must have the power to impose appropriate penalties for violation of ant rights.

09.

All beings are prohibited from interfering with the free exercise of the ant religion.

10.

All beings are required to respect the environment of ants and all other beings.

11.

All beings are required to encourage the preservation of ant diversity.

12.

All beings are required to abide by these Universal Ant Rights in so far as they respect the independent nature of ants and do not interfere with them.

13.

All beings are required to make their best efforts to ensure that the environment of ants and all other beings is protected.

14.

All beings are required to encourage peaceful coexistence and the pursuit of harmony between ants and other beings.

15.

All beings are prohibited from interfering with the life of an ant colony or any of its members.

16.

All beings are prohibited from making use of any part of an ant colony without the permission of the ants.

17.

All beings are prohibited from interfering with the environment of an ant colony or any of its member.

18.

All beings are required to abide by these Universal Ant Rights in so far as they do not interfere with the free exercise of the ant religion and do not violate the integrity of an ant colony.

19.

All beings are required to report any violation of ant rights to the Universal Interspecies Court.

20.

All beings are required to uphold this Universal Declaration of Ant Rights.

21.

The Universal Interspecies Court has the power to impose appropriate penalties for violation of ant rights.

The above twenty-one ant rights were formulated by the Ant Rights Project as a basis for further discussion and as a means of protecting ants from human exploitation and abuse. The Ant Rights Project has also developed a draft treaty which would be submitted to the United Nations to prohibit human activities that interfere with the freedom of ants.

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