Dan Brennan has published Proposals for the Rights and Liabilities of Artificial Intelligence through Electronic Personhood: Conscious Machines, Hermit Crabs, and the Distant Past. Here is the abstract.
Examines the complexities of contemporary AI regulation, chiefly in the technology's unique capacity for autonomous decision making and independent learning. The paper highlights the potential of granting legal personhood to sophisticated AI systems as an alternative to current regulatory schemes. Three categories of personhood are considered: the ontological model, corporate frameworks, and the ancient Roman concept of peculium. Fundamentally, each model allows AI to hold property and be responsible for its actions, notably by indemnifying any legal persons it may harm. That said, each model has unique benefits and limitations which are discussed in turn. Chapter 6 concludes that neither one of these models can be exclusively relied upon. Instead, a new form of 'electronic personhood' should adopt elements from all the regulatory methods discussed herein, including methods of current regulation and the EU's AI Act.
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