By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026The "rights for nature" movement has made great strides by extending personhood to animals and ecosystems. But ascribing personhood to chatbots is nothing like ascribing personhood to nature. Indeed, it's fundamentally incompatible with "rights for nature." 1240
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026Think of the abomination that is "corporate personhood": by extending personhood to this human construct, we have made a world where artificial lifeforms - limited liability corporations - can destroy nature and drive animals to extinction. 2436
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026If we extend personhood to these climate-shredding, water-chugging AI models, their personhood will *demand* the sacrifice of animals, the natural world, and our own wellbeing: pluralistic.net/2026/04/15/a...pluralistic.netPluralistic: Rights for robots (15 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1342
skyking99.bsky.social @skyking99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026UNLESS & UNTIL a 'corporation' can ALSO ('physically/ corporally') breathe, kiss, burp, urinate, defecate, make love, drive a car, climb a mountain, be jailed or even EXECUTED (Hello!), then ANY 'cartoonish' notion of "corporate PERSONHOOD" is NOTHING but an OBVIOUS, political & legal SCAM. Period! 000