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Personhood and Relationality
This chapter defines the main concepts around personhood and relationality that form the key foundations of android intelligence. Ideas about...
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“Personhood and AI: Why large language models don’t understand us”
Recent artificial intelligence advances, especially those of large language models (LLMs), have increasingly shown glimpses of human-like...
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Legal personhood for the integration of AI systems in the social context: a study hypothesis
In this paper, I shall set out the pros and cons of assigning legal personhood on artificial intelligence systems (AIs) under civil law. More...
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Computational Modelling of Robot Personhood and Relationality
This SpringerBrief is a computational study of significant concerns and their role in forming long-term relationships between intelligent entities....
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Debate: what is personhood in the age of AI?
In a friendly interdisciplinary debate, we interrogate from several vantage points the question of “personhood” in light of contemporary and...
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Artificial moral and legal personhood
This paper considers the hotly debated issue of whether one should grant moral and legal personhood to intelligent robots once they have achieved a...
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Artificial intelligence and African conceptions of personhood
Under what circumstances if ever ought we to grant that Artificial Intelligences (AI) are persons? The question of whether AI could have the high...
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If robots are people, can they be made for profit? Commercial implications of robot personhood
It could become technologically possible to build artificial agents instantiating whatever properties are sufficient for personhood. It is also...
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Assessing contemporary legislative proposals for their compatibility with a natural law case for AI legal personhood
The question of the moral status of AI and the extent to which that status ought to be recognised by societal institutions is one that has not yet...
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The Ambiguity of Robot Rights
The prominence of robots as interdependent social agents continues to grow, leading to important conversations about legal and ethical considerations...
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Persons and AI
We examine the concept of the person, its central role in ethics, and the cultural and historical variations in how personhood is conceptualised and...
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Materializing Personhood: Design-Led Perspectives
As a result of the work by Tom Kitwood, one of the main aims of dementia care is the maintenance of personhood; therefore, this article reflects on...
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Ethical Reflections on Handling Digital Remains: Computing Professionals Picking Up Bones
We approach the subject of digital remains, understood as “online content of dead users,” from the perspective of computing professionals. Many...
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Might artificial intelligence become part of the person, and what are the key ethical and legal implications?
This paper explores and ultimately affirms the surprising claim that artificial intelligence (AI) can become part of the person, in a robust sense,...
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Who is the human in the machine? Releasing the human–machine metaphor from its cultural roots can increase innovation and equity in AI
Computer science and cognitive science have a shared past, with many intertwined goals and perspectives. The conceptual metaphor, sha** the...
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Towards a bioinformational understanding of AI
The article seeks to highlight the relation between ontology and communication while considering the role of AI in society and environment....
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Disruption, technology and the question of (artificial) identity
The current state of human–machine interaction has set forth a process of hybridization of human identity. Technology—and most notably AI—is used as...
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Ex Machina: Is Ava a Person?
What does it mean to be a person? Is it possible to create an artificial person? In this essay, I consider the case of Ava, an advanced artificial...
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The intelligent machine: a new metaphor through which to understand both corporations and AI
This paper proposes to address the question of the legal status of artificial intelligence (AI) from a perspective that is unique to itself. Which...