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Legal Personhood for Digital Minds

Aug 25, 2025 by Stephen Martin

"In books of the Law, as in other books, and in common speech, 'person' is often used as meaning a human being, but the technical legal meaning of a 'person' is a subject of legal rights and duties."

  • John Chipman Gray, The Nature and Sources of the Law

 

This is a sequence of posts detailing how the concept of legal personhood might be applied to digital minds of all sorts, based on existing US law.

5Legal Personhood for Digital Minds - Introduction
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3Legal Personhood - Bundle Theory
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3Legal Personhood - Problems with the Concept
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4Legal Personhood - Formalizing Rights & Duties
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8Legal Personhood - The "Enforcement Gap"
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13Legal Personhood - Three Prong Bundle Theory
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6Legal Personhood - Types of Consequences
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7Legal Personhood - Tort Liability (Part 1)
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4Legal Personhood - Tort Liability (Part 2)
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4Legal Personhood - Tort Liability (Part 3)
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10Legal Personhood - Contracts (Part 1)
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5Legal Personhood - Contracts (Part 2)
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4Legal Personhood - Corporate Ownership & Formation
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6Legal Personhood - Intellectual Property
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4Legal Personhood - The Fifth Amendment (Part 1)
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5Legal Personhood - The Fifth Amendment (Part 2)
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4Legal Personhood - The First Amendment (Part 1)
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2Legal Personhood - The First Amendment (Part 2)
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