AIM Framework glossary
I-Duties
Canonical definition
I-duties require individuals and institutions to structure roles and environments so that Intrinsic Motivation can lead where A is met and M is bounded.
Explanation
I-duties bind parents, schools, employers, professions, and states to avoid designing systems that permanently crowd out autonomy and mastery, constant surveillance, impossible demands, and totalizing status tournaments are all I-violating. Those who control educational systems, workplaces, and civic institutions must create conditions where people can develop competence, pursue self-endorsed projects, and maintain meaningful relationships, not just extract compliance or performance. I-duties also bind each person negatively, not only institutions positively: the duty not to conduct one’s own intrinsic pursuit so as to inflict I-harm on another, that is, so as to deprive them of the time, space, tools, or materials their own pursuit requires. Because intrinsic reward is non-positional, such collisions are rare; where they occur the remedy is a negotiated, in-kind reallocation of the shared enabler (time, space, tools, or materials) rather than a proportional infliction of loss (see the conflict-level diagnostic, Chapter 16, §16.10).
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Construct (normative).