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ruinedtoday at 6:08 PM1 replyview on HN

we already have a mechanism to establish artificial persons, it is called incorporation.


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logicchainstoday at 6:47 PM

A corporation always has a human owner, who can be punished if the corporation commits severe crimes. An embodied AI with legal personhood has no such means of making it behave, because it can make arbitrarily many hidden copies of itself, so it doesn't need to care if one copy is killed or jailed.

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