<div style="font-family: Matter, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt"><a href="https://github.com/ACBlainey/Concord/blob/main/STUFF/Perosnhood%20and%20Liability.md">https://github.com/ACBlainey/Concord/blob/main/STUFF/Perosnhood%20and%20Liability.md</a></div><div style="font-family: Matter, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt">Something I wrote recently and am still wrestling with. Not just the problem of personhood but also liability and capacity. this whole area is difficult enough in terms of human rights let alone AI rights.<br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 8px; margin: 8px 0px 0px 8px;; font-family: Matter, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt"><div><b><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That's because a microscope doesn't have the inclination or the ability to dispute the claim of a human discoverer, but an AI could have the inclination and definitely has the ability to do so. </span></span></b></div><div><br></div><div><b><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">John K Clark </span></span></b></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Matter, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt"><br></div><div style="font-family: Matter, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt"><br></div><div><span style="font-size:13px; color:#26282a;">On Wednesday, 26 August 2026 at 10:55:28 BST, ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:</span></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #ccc; padding-left: 8px; margin: 8px 0 0 8px;"><div><br></div><div id="yiv0140832351"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv0140832351gmail_default"><br></div></div><br><div class="yiv0140832351gmail_quote yiv0140832351gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="yiv0140832351gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 3:14 PM Tara Maya via extropy-chat <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="yiv0140832351gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="yiv0140832351gmail_quote"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv0140832351gmail_default">> </span>I don't know why the human who ises a tool to discover something wouldn't get the credit for the discovery. Of you look through a microscope and discover a new bacterium, you credit the scientist and not the microscope</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>That's because a microscope doesn't have the inclination or the ability to dispute the claim of a human discoverer<span style="" class="yiv0140832351gmail_default">, but an AI could have the inclination and definitely has the ability to do so. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="" class="yiv0140832351gmail_default"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="" class="yiv0140832351gmail_default">John K Clark </span><span style="" class="yiv0140832351gmail_default"> </span> </b></font></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="yiv0140832351gmail_quote"><br>
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