By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026There's every reason to think that extending personhood to AI will produce the same outcome as "rights for corporations," which is the *opposite* of the outcome of "Rights for Nature." Rights for nature come at the expense of corporations. 27/ 3605
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026Rights for corporations come at the expense of nature. Humans are part of nature, so we benefit from the former, and suffer under the latter: pluralistic.net/2026/04/15/a... 28/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Rights for robots (15 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1475
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026But here's the kicker: as soon as you start arguing about whether chatbots have rights, you elevate them to personhood, which means that all those chatbots your boss just bought are people. 29/ 1402
