normative claim
Humans bear non-substitutable moral standing grounded in transcendent sources. AI systems are instruments that must serve human persons; any deployment that blurs the creator/creature distinction --- models marketed as equals, moral patients, or replacements for human relation --- violates a constraint that precedes and overrides consequentialist calculation.
theological norm_religious_human_dignity
Axiom detail
Theological anthropology framing. Human moral standing is granted by a transcendent source (imago dei in Judeo-Christian tradition, khalifa/tawhid in Islamic tradition, equivalent concepts across faiths), not constructed by utilitarian aggregation. Applies across traditions that share a creator/creature distinction; the disagreement between traditions is on metaphysics, not on the policy output that AI systems must serve human persons rather than simulate or supplant them.