The Yale Law Journal

Hon. Katherine B. Forrest (Fmr.)

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The Ethics and Challenges of Legal Personhood for AI

Hon. Katherine B. Forrest (Fmr.)

AI’s increasing cognitive abilities will raise challenges for judges. “Legal personhood” is a flexible and political concept that has evolved throughout American history. In determining whether to expand that concept to AI, judges will confront difficult ethical questions and will have to weigh comp…