[ExI] Claude for president?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 9:28 AM John Clark via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 6:55 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Perhaps instead we should push for a constitutional amendment to declare AIs persons who can become president.
>
> That would indeed require a constitutional amendment, Claude was born in the USA but he is less than 35 years old.

And are we talking about the general framework?  Arguably, specific
versions of Claude would be more analogous to a specific individual
(each version being something akin to a parent or older sibling of the
next), and those are rarely in significant use for more than a few
years (at the extreme).

One could try to make an argument that "Claude" includes R&D
stretching back many years, before the name Claude was formally in
use, but that seems unlikely to pass court review (all other aspects
of court review aside).