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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

If 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...

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Pluralistic: Rights for robots (15 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

Chatbots are marvels of mathematics, and that is enough. They don't need to be people.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

Mistaking them for people (or even just *treating* them like people) makes it impossible for us to separate the useful things they can do from the waste, ugliness and *wrongness* they are so prone to exhausting into the world.

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