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personhood

personhood

3 8.0
Recognising a robot or AI as having rights and responsibilities
  • noun
  • /ˈpɜrsənhʊd/
  • Formal
translation icon : personalidad jurídica
  • Dissenting opinions in Citizens United and Hobby Lobby dealt with the issue of corporate personhood at much greater length than the majority opinions.
  • corporate personhood
  • view of personhood

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Examples

  • Do you imagine a situation which AI created entities have the same rights of personhood that corporations have?

  • The film "The Corporation" has a great section on how corporations won "personhood status."

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  • The idea of corporate personhood in US law goes back almost 200 years.

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  • But they do say you cannot recognize legal personhood in artificial intelligence.

  • Once we're uploaded as digital entities, I think all bets about how personhood works get called into question.

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  • The primary drivers behind this were that before corporate personhood, the corporation itself could neither sue nor be sued.

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  • So last year, last March, the New Zealand, New Zealand Parliament, for instance, granted a personhood to a river, the Wanganui River.

  • The debate over personhood of artificial intelligence raises important legal and ethical questions.

  • Some countries are considering legislation to grant personhood to sentient robots.

  • The discussion surrounding personhood of nonhuman entities often challenges traditional views of legal rights.

How Recognized

personhood
  • Formal
20 7.9
personhood
  • Formal
3 8.0
nonperson
  • Slur
1 9.9

Surface Forms

personhood singular
personhoods plural

Morphology

personhood = person (transparent) = person + hood

Formation is the same as the general sense: 'person' + '-hood' = the state or condition of being regarded as a person, applicable to novel entities like AIs.

Etymology

Personhood comes from person plus -hood, and -hood means 'state' as in childhood. So when people talk about giving a robot or a program personhood, they mean giving it the 'state of being a person', such as rights or responsibilities, which is why the word is about identity and legal or moral status.