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Robot Rights & Alien Intelligences w/ David J. Gunkel

FUTURES Podcast

CHAPTER

The Problem With Personhood

The history of personhood as both a moral, metaphysical and legal concept is rather complicated. Most groups have been using the legal construct of personhood to get protections for natural objects in the environment. And we now see questions arising in both the moral and the legal literature about possible personhood for artificial intelligence and robots.

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