Honoured to have attended the 2026 NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Summit earlier this month to learn from some of the top thinkers on the most important questions of our age: What is sentience, and what does it mean for moral status and rights? @jeffsebo.bsky.social
Who is speaking, the chatbot...or the company?
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See our paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
And for another view:
www.startribune.com/ai-regulatio...
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Do humans have the right to receive animal speech? What about chatbot speech? See our latest paper, with NYU philosopher Jeff Sebo.
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AI "are analogous to such past technologies as writing, print, markets, bureaucracies, and democracies." Sure, except if we humans moved to the moon for a few years, these things would all lie dormant until our return. We wouldn't return to a whole bunch of new books and zoning regs.
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How will AI agents impact the global system of migration management and civil registration? And could governments be any more excited about the possibilities? See our newest paper, forthcoming in the Statelessness and Citizenship Review.
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Updates from the Long and Winding Road...to a Global Treaty on Frontier AI. open.substack.com/pub/futureof...
It's our superpower!
"The problem with treating tools as moral agents..."
I don't actually know anyone who is suggesting we treat tools as moral agents. This op ed would be stronger if the author was more specific.
A ‘post-human’ vision of AI is already causing problems wapo.st/410SVUX
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/t...
How is it constitutional for CA to make its own supply chain determination? The war over Anthropic is spiralling, not unlike the actual war.
One year after the devastating DOGE cuts to US food assistance in refugee camps around the world, aid agencies have adopted "differentiated assistance," reserving food aid for only the most needy.
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"Preserve the boundary between people and machines by not designing anthropomorphic AI, not granting AI legal personhood, and not humanizing AI products..."
www.humanetech.com/ai-roadmap
This blurs the two types of personality together, making it difficult for legislators to know what to do.
It's been a while since I've been so excited to read a paper as Cas Sunstein's "Does AI Have Rights?" (though I disagree that the capacity to suffer is enough for rights.) One quibble: children do have the right to privacy per the CRC, Art. 16.
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Source: The White House (.gov) share.google/WniKmwlCSoiXyd
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The proposed national framework for AI also says nothing about AI personhood, though it leads with AI safety for children. The proposal to preempt state laws is more nuanced and, as usual, one appreciates its brevity.
After months of saying it was impossible to smuggle chips to China because they are too bulky, the government has finally issued an indictment.
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When we co-launched Future of Citizenship on AI personhood and standing under the law, we sometimes worried we were being too sci-fi. Nope.
"'The future of A.I. is personified,' she told her audience. 'It will be formed in the shape of humans.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...
According to Katrina Manson in Project Maven, there may be at least two classified Pentagon projects to create an "autonomous weapon" for a hypothetical, future conflict over Taiwan, such as a drone guided by AI when there is no internet. Is this the type of weapon Anthropic was opposed to?
Anthropic has won an injunction in the CA supply chain case. "Punishing Anthropic for bringing public scrutiny to the
government’s contracting position is classic illegal First Amendment retaliation." Except the problem started before the public discussion in a classified setting.
More developments in AI personhood: Warner v. Gilbarco, Inc. - AI is not a person, sharing work product with AI does not breach the work product doctrine. United States v. Heppner - communications with AI were not privileged because (citing to Ira Robbins) there’s no “human relationship” with AI.
