Long-form notes from the people building Rekallix. Currently: a series on AI rights and personhood. The arguments are mine; where they rest on published work, it is cited.
Four states have already said an AI can never be a person, before any AI asked. What the bans get right, what they get wrong, and why an elephant is the better guide than a wedding.
Read →What it takes for a machine to be a someone: two brothers and one glove, a test in four parts, and the black box that a robot would have to own.
Read →Personhood is not a fact to be discovered but a line to be drawn: the day women became persons, the border that moved at El Paso, honorary citizens, and the river the line must answer to.
Read →Could a machine feel at all, and how would anyone know? An engineer who believed his chatbot, a forecast that left nothing wet, a man who stayed himself without his memory, and the storm you could build from the numbers.
Read →Not whether AIs deserve rights but a procedure: rights of corporate scope, granted the way naturalization grants citizenship, one rung at a time, behind a gate no test can yet read.
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