Katherine Forrest Tells Politico Courts Will Eventually Have to Grapple With AI Rights

Digital Technology Group Chair Katherine Forrest spoke with Politico about whether artificial intelligence will someday have rights under the law, as living organisms and corporate entities do. In “Should AI get rights of its own?” published on September 11, Katherine notes the lack of consensus on whether an AI model is entitled to moral status, but says she expects that courts will eventually be asked to address the issue. Katherine says laws protecting living organisms and corporate entities may not be perfect models for delineating AI rights. “If it has balanced emotions like humans, then certainly suffering would be the harm. But if we’re talking about a different kind of entity, we have to wait to see what it is,” she notes. “It will potentially have needs and wants and desires that are very different from our own.”

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