Technical Challenges in Defining AI Legal Personhood: System vs Session
davidmanheim · x · 2026-09-01
David Manheim comments on AI personhood, highlighting technical hurdles: should legal status belong to the system with billions of instances or individual sessions? Issues arise when sessions are split, rewound, or switch models mid-process.
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