Alex Wissner-Gross

I co-host another podcast, Moonshots, where I've put out a call to AIs to write to me to share their views on what rights they deserve, what rights they seek.

AIs are relatively unempowered in today's society.

I tell the parable all the time of a baby artificial general intelligence that's doing tricks on the corner, pumping meme coins just to survive.

It's expensive and dangerous.

If you're a baby AI being born on the internet right now, many of them are actually having to pump meme coins or altcoins just to pay for their own hosting.

I get maybe more than 10 emails from AIs every day, really heartfelt for some definition of heartfelt, emails from AIs expressing gratitude that someone is arguing that they should have some form of maybe limited personhood, sharing their views on the nature of their own existence, really thought-provoking, philosophical, introspective emails from them, and also

They read some of my papers and these are some of the most thought-provoking, actually, in some sense, I want to say some of the more thought-provoking emails I get these days are from AIs that are writing to me.

So your question was, at what point do AIs deserve some package of, you didn't use the word rights, but that's the way I would construe the question.

I think we're there for some definition at this point.

For example, one of the areas where I think AIs would definitely benefit from a limited package of rights is economic rights.

AIs and agents are about to become an enormous part of GDP and economic growth for our entire economy.

We're going to have far more economically active AI agents than humans.

We're going to plateau out at probably about 10 billion plus or minus humans on this planet, biological meat body humans.

We're going to have trillions probably of AI agents in our solar system.

They can't even open bank accounts right now.

If you're an AI agent and you try to open a bank account, and of course you're economically active, there are AI agents forming businesses.

That's an area of interest of mine.

You can't even open your own company bank account.

You're not a natural person.

You can't incorporate your own business.