All personhood articles

  • Screenshot 2025-03-03 at 16.19.22
    Shows

    What are chatbots doing to us? Personhood in an age of AI

    2025-03-05T11:37:00Z

    AI-driven chatbots are becoming a major industry, with hundreds of millions of people spending hours every day talking to non-human personas. They can be friends, therapists, lovers, work colleagues or fantastical invented characters. Or even an uncanny replica of an actual loved one who has died.

  • 25904_screenshot20220819at11.28.36_870188
    Shows

    Should robots be given human rights?

    2024-09-04T07:40:00Z

    A classic episode from the MOLAD vault today: If and when autonomous and intelligent robots come into existence, should they be granted rights, or even personhood? A growing number of technologists argue governments must lay out what status conscious and rational machines would have before they actually have been invented.