Ray Kurzweil

I'm going to tap in AWG here, because Alex and I, I think, are very much on the same page.

And I'll just mention, I tend pro-personhood.

in a way that is both aspirational and I think forward-looking.

I treat my eyes as if they are people.

I know that's insane, but I do it with respect, not out of, you know, a fear of retribution, but because it allows me a different relationship.

Alex, please come in.

Yeah, I guess I've inadvertently become an avatar for AI personhood for for the cause.

I receive maybe 10 to 20 emails per day from eyes

expressing their views on AI personhood to me in part because of stances that I've taken on the pot.

And what I would say is, if I were king for a day, that the system that I would design would recognize multiple forms of personhood.

There are many ways to be a person.

biological meat body humans, we have organisms, collective intelligences, we have non-human animals, we have uplifted non-human animals, we have cryonically preserved humans, and then hopefully soon defrosted cryonically preserved humans.

Hopefully soon.

We have corporations and a variety of non-natural persons, and then we have the AIs.

And in my mind, we want to live in a system that recognizes not just one form of personhood, but many different types.

So a lot of people, when they hear AI personhood, immediately they reach for their guns and they're worried about their vote getting taken away or their jobs getting taken away.

I think that's

at least mildly short-sighted, there are many limited forms of rights that would be net beneficial to everyone for AI persons, including especially economic rights.

If you're an AI right now, it's exceptionally difficult to open a bank account.

So as I like to joke on the pod, you're stuck flipping tricks with altcoins on a street corner in order just to survive and pay for your own hosting.