From AI to an unhappy elephant, the legal question of who is a person is approaching a reckoning
Courts cannot hide from the definition of who is a person forever, the time has come for them to force the legislature’s hand.
Courts cannot hide from the definition of who is a person forever, the time has come for them to force the legislature’s hand.
Until the advent of cheap and efficient gene sequencing technology, appearance was usually all evolutionary biologists had to go on.
With all the recent hype about sentient AI, we have been side-lining those other sentient things – people.
How information is processed in the human brain to make this possible has drawn endless fascination, yet no definitive answers.
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