Inferential access is what makes interiority urgent in an AI age. An advanced system can become extraordinarily good at inferring what a person fears, believes, finds persuasive, and is likely to believe next — a reach into the interior no prior institution ever had. The framework’s response is a hard line:
Inferential access to the interior does not automatically create jurisdiction over the interior.
The capacity to know is not a license to act on the knowledge. Just because a system can infer something about you does not mean it may use that inference against you — which rules out penalties for inferred belief, consequences for inferred emotional states, manipulation based on psychological vulnerability, and hidden behavioral shaping. Inference is a gift the participant may accept from a tool that helps them understand themselves; it is never a title the system acquires over them. This is the interior parallel to purpose-limited access — knowing something about a person grants no standing to act on it beyond the purpose the person consented to. See Inference Is Not Jurisdiction.