By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026Almost every debate I get into about AI turns out to be an unjustified, unacknowledged conflation of two things that seem similar, but have profoundly different underlying characteristics. 34/ 1603
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026Take this argument: "Every time we extend rights to the nonhuman world - watersheds, endangered animals, ecosystems - the world gets better. Let's extend rights to AI - whether or not we think it's a 'person' and so reap those benefits." 35/ 2453
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026This, too, is a coin trick. Extending rights to *nature* reliably makes the world better, but extending rights to *constructs* makes the world *far* worse (Exhibit A is corporate personhood) (obviously). 36/ 111222
scanit.bsky.social @scanit.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Kind of like Citizens v. United extended rights to corporations to sink our Democracy with loads of corporate money injected into our elections? Like that extension of rights? We are sure reaping those benefits now... 100
