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States seek to declare AI non-conscious

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By Austin Smith, Lucius Caviola, Heather Alexander
| EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) (Podcast)
TLDR: Several US states are considering banning legal personhood for AI systems and/or declaring that AI systems cannot be conscious. The primary motives include religious beliefs, ensuring human accountability for harms, and child safety. We think both moves are premature. Declaring that AI cannot be conscious is especially unwise, since that is a scientific/philosophical question lawmakers cannot resolve.
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Statewide View: Does AI have free speech? Minnesota voters may be asked

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By Heather Alexander, Jeff Sebo, Jonathan Simon
| Duluth News Tribune Verified
“Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to state that artificial intelligence does not have the right to free speech?” In November, Minnesota voters may be asked to answer this profound, and profoundly strange, question. Voters are often asked to take time out of their busy lives to decide deep questions, but rarely one this deep. We are a lawyer and two philosophers who study AI “speech.” AI safety is an urgent problem, but this ban would be unnecessary and could be counterproductive. Why?
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Ohio’s AI personhood ban risks outlawing the future

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By Heather Alexander
| Perry County Tribune Verified
(Ohio Capital Journal) — The Ohio legislature is to be commended for taking AI personhood seriously, but we argue the current proposed bill is overbroad.
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