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Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers' Brief [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In December 2013, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a petition for a common law writ of habeas corpus in the New York State Supreme Court on behalf of Tommy, a chimpanzee living alone in a cage in a shed in rural New York (Barlow, 2017).
Andrews, Kristin   +12 more
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Protecting Sentient Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Lay Intuitions on Standing, Personhood, and General Legal Protection

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021
To what extent, if any, should the law protect sentient artificial intelligence (that is, AI that can feel pleasure or pain)? Here we surveyed United States adults (n = 1,061) on their views regarding granting 1) general legal protection, 2) legal ...
Eric Martínez   +4 more
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The Conflict Between People’s Urge to Punish AI and Legal Systems

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021
Regulating artificial intelligence (AI) has become necessary in light of its deployment in high-risk scenarios. This paper explores the proposal to extend legal personhood to AI and robots, which had not yet been examined through the lens of the general ...
Gabriel Lima   +5 more
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Law’s Entities: Complexity, Plasticity and Justice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In the early twenty-first century, and looking beyond it, the landscapes of law’s operation are characterised by a growing degree of complexity and pressure. Law is called upon to coordinate relations in a world facing a significant complexities produced
Grear, Anna
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Legal Personhood

open access: yes, 2023
This Element presents the notion of legal personhood, which is a foundational concept of Western law. It explores the theoretical and philosophical foundations of legal personhood, such as how legal personhood is defined and whether legal personhood is connected to personhood as a general notion.
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Legal Personhood for AI? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Abstract This chapter considers legal personhood for artificial agents. It engages with the legal issues of autonomous systems, asking the question whether (and if so, under what conditions) such systems should be given the status of a legal subject, capable of acting in law and/or being held liable in law.
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Vůle a její relevance pro právní filozofii

open access: yesActa Universitatis Carolinae Iuridica, 2023
The article deals with the will and related legal issues. It first discusses the historical development of the concept of will and then looks at other issues relating to it, such as its freedom. It shows the different ways in which the definition of will
Oldřich Tristan Florian
doaj   +1 more source

Visa A. J. Kurki and Tomasz Pietrzykowski (Eds.). Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the Unborn - The Law and Philosophy Library, Volume 119, ix (Springer International Publishing, 2017) 158 p.

open access: yesDerecho Animal, 2018
It is in a possible future reconstruction of the notion of legal personhood that the key to better protection for animals may lie. At least, this is the belief of those who seek to expand the current understanding of personhood to encompass animals.
Oliver Wookey
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We’re All Infected: Legal Personhood, Bare Life and The Walking Dead [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article argues that greater theoretical attention should be paid to the figure of the zombie in the fields of law, cultural studies and philosophy. Using The Walking Dead as a point of critical departure concepts of legal personhood are interrogated
A Loudermilk   +31 more
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Legal Status of Intelligent Robots in Chinese Law

open access: yesحقوق فناوریهای نوین, 2023
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), the legal community has raised various views on the civil rights status of intelligent robots. The main question is whether robots can be granted legal personality.
Mehrnoush Fanaei , Li Xin Yang
doaj   +1 more source

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