Like asking us to believe that 2+2=5, the bill requires decision makers to ignore documented fact and give legal priority to a fiction.
- Senior Lecturer in Law, Newcastle University
A lump of cells could be given the legal status of a person, or remain a property.
Courts already grapple with the consequences of AI sentience but ignore the same for animals.
Desde los tenistas hasta los representantes públicos, el doble rasero en la ley tiene consecuencias de gran calado que minan la confianza de los ciudadanos en el sistema.
From tennis players to government officials, double standards in law have big-picture consequences.
Happy has lived alone in captivity for 14 years, but a New York appeals court recently denied a legal effort to rehome her.
A legal expert looks at the issue of robot rights and what makes us human.
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