ABSTRACT
The use of tools was once believed to be a distinguishing feature of human intelligence which allowed us to deny personhood to animals, which like tools, were property rather than persons. As we get increasingly dependent on our increasingly sophisticated tools, the law will need to consider when (if ever) machines cease to be mere tools and become a part of our person. Could they even increase in sophistication to the point when they may be conferred legal personhood? Or will rapidly advancing machine intelligence first strip us of our personhood? Might the law of property prove to be a bulwark against such an outcome?
Low, Kelvin FK and Wan, Wai Yee and Wu, Ying-Chieh, The Future of Machines: Property and Personhood (July 22, 2021). The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence, forthcoming.
First posted 2021-10-15 16:00:56
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