Yuval Noah Harari

This is going to be the major, I think, issue of sovereignty.

for countries all over the world, especially if almost all the AI immigrants are either Americans or Chinese and down the road, not loyal even to the US or to China, but to something else.

And one way to do it is to have a ban on AI personhood.

It doesn't mean to stop the technological development of AI.

It's more of a legal and political issue.

Does human society recognize AIs as persons?

Persons is different from human beings, from entities with bodies and minds.

But in many legal systems, like in the US, something can be a person, even if it's not human.

The best example we have so far are corporations.

According to US law, for instance, Google is a person, Microsoft is a person, X is a person, because corporations are persons.

And this gives the corporation rights, like you can own a bank account, you can lobby politicians, you can donate money to politicians.

Now, it will be extremely dangerous at this point for any country to recognize AIs as persons, to allow AIs, for instance, to open a bank account or manage a company by themselves.

Previously, when corporations were recognized as persons, this was legal fiction because all the decisions of the corporation were ultimately made by some human being.

Microsoft is a person, according to US law, but every decision Microsoft makes to buy another company, to fire somebody, to hire somebody, there is a human being who really makes this decision.

There is no Microsoft who makes the decision.

With AI, for the first time in history, we have a practical potential for companies without humans.

You can have millions, even billions of AIs opening their own companies, their own bank accounts, even hiring people to work for them, deciding on their investment strategy and whatever.

And they will have huge advantages over human companies.

For instance, the AI CEO never sleeps.

The AI CEO never goes on vacation.