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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
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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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]
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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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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Legal Status of Intelligent Robots in Chinese Law
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
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Vůle a její relevance pro právní filozofii
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
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Legal Personhood and Animal Rights [PDF]
Abstract A relatively recent form of animal activism is lawsuits intended to declare some animals as legal persons. A pioneer of this approach is the U.S.-based Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP). This organization’s primary strategy has been to invoke the writ of habeas corpus, which protects the right to personal freedom of “persons.” The ...
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Beyond Dualism(s): A New Approach to Legal Personhood in Contemporary Legal Theory
This article presents a critique of the Orthodox View of legal personhood, which traditionally aligns personhood with the capacity to hold rights and duties.
Zsófia Folková
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Negotiating Personhood Beyond the Human: A Relational Legal Thought Experiment
This article explores the ontological foundations of legal personhood in light of contemporary philosophical challenges to the human–nonhuman divide.
Zsófia Folková
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