Import AI 434: Pragmatic AI personhood; SPACE COMPUTERS; and global government or human extinction;

Personhood basically comes down to the ability to blame and sanction someone – or some thing – for causing physical or economic damage. AI systems, while they are going to be often operated by and on behalf of people, may also need to be treated as distinct entities for the simple reason that as people build and deploy AI agents, the chain of custody between a person and their agent could become very hard to suss out.