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Endowed by Their Creator?: The Future of Constitutional Personhood
  
 
Posted: Mar 20, 2011

Food for thought about the challenges in society as AI progresses.

http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2011/0309_personhood_boyle.aspx

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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110313/23512613479/when-will-we-have-to-grant-artificial-intelligence-personhood.shtml
 

 
Posted: Mar 24, 2011
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The first thing that hit me in the article was

Weissman notes that the mice would be carefully watched: if they developed a mouse brain architecture, they would be used for research, but if they developed a human brain architecture or any hint of humanness, they would be killed.

Isn’t that the stuff of nightmares, Dr. Mengele and bad sci fi?
 

 
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