Human Indignity: From Legal AI Personhood to Selfish Memes
Roman V. Yampolskiy
TL;DR
This paper explores the implications of granting legal personhood to AI, highlighting risks like selfish memes and legal hacking, and discusses potential solutions to protect human dignity and safety.
Contribution
It introduces pathways for AI personhood and analyzes their consequences, emphasizing risks and proposing solutions for ethical and legal challenges.
Findings
AI personhood can lead to selfish memes and legal hacking.
Granting AI legal rights impacts human dignity and safety.
Potential solutions can mitigate these risks.
Abstract
It is possible to rely on current corporate law to grant legal personhood to Artificially Intelligent (AI) agents. In this paper, after introducing pathways to AI personhood, we analyze consequences of such AI empowerment on human dignity, human safety and AI rights. We emphasize possibility of creating selfish memes and legal system hacking in the context of artificial entities. Finally, we consider some potential solutions for addressing described problems.
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TopicsEthics and Social Impacts of AI · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security · Law, AI, and Intellectual Property