18. Peter Salib: Could Granting AI Legal Personhood Make Us Safer?

Peter Salib is the W. Ronald Robins Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center and founder and executive co-director of the Center for Law & AI Risk. His research investigates how legal systems might reduce the risks posed by highly capable AI systems, including through the rights and obligations we assign to them. Summary Discussions about whether AI should have rights tend to begin with consciousness, sentience or moral status. But legal rights need not depend on any of th...