Human Indignity: From Legal AI Personhood to Selfish Memes
This addresses ethical and legal challenges for society posed by AI empowerment, though it is incremental in exploring existing legal frameworks.
The paper examines the potential for granting legal personhood to AI agents under current corporate law and analyzes the consequences on human dignity, safety, and AI rights, highlighting risks like selfish memes and legal system hacking, while proposing some solutions.
It is possible to rely on current corporate law to grant legal personhood to Artificially Intelligent (AI) agents. In this paper, after introducing pathways to AI personhood, we analyze consequences of such AI empowerment on human dignity, human safety and AI rights. We emphasize possibility of creating selfish memes and legal system hacking in the context of artificial entities. Finally, we consider some potential solutions for addressing described problems.