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Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the UnbornAnimals’ Race Against the Machines

Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the Unborn: Animals’ Race Against the... [Nowadays, we are witnessing an acceleration of the debate on animal legal rights. The discussion has its legislative counterpart: a growing number of states have passed legislation widening animal legal rights or even granting them personhood. In comparison, the debate on artificial agents’ personhood is only theoretical, although some legislation recognizes the problem of autonomous artificial agents.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the UnbornAnimals’ Race Against the Machines

Part of the Law and Philosophy Library Book Series (volume 119)
Editors: Kurki, Visa A.J.; Pietrzykowski, Tomasz
Michalczak, Rafał
Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the Unborn — Mar 24, 2017
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-53461-9
Pages
91 –101
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-53462-6_6
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Abstract

[Nowadays, we are witnessing an acceleration of the debate on animal legal rights. The discussion has its legislative counterpart: a growing number of states have passed legislation widening animal legal rights or even granting them personhood. In comparison, the debate on artificial agents’ personhood is only theoretical, although some legislation recognizes the problem of autonomous artificial agents.]

Published: Mar 24, 2017

Keywords: Artificial Agent; Software Agent; Conceptual Argument; Informational Process; Ethical Subject

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