Randima Fernando

I am this person!

Choose people for your Council

Their For/Against majority represents you.

Unless you vote directly.

Center for Humane Technology co-founder

Speaks on: AI Governance AI Regulation AI Safety Ethics Law

I am this person!

ai-governance (1) ai-regulation (1) ai-safety (1) ethics (1) law (1) policy (1) public-interest-ai (1)

Top New

AI agents should be granted legal personhood as non-human corporations
126 opinions

Randima Fernando votes Against and says:

I am this person! Add a sourced quote Report comment

Beyond the risks of anthropomorphization, a perception of consciousness opens the door to AI welfare; welfare opens the door to personhood and rights; and rights confer legal and moral protection, all while AI agents can process vastly more data and ...
more AI Verified source (Jun 12, 2026)

added 4mo ago

Other authors to follow

Dario Amodei CEO at Anthropic OpenAI AI research organization Anthropic AI safety research company Sam Altman CEO at OpenAI Yoshua Bengio AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner Demis Hassabis Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind Bernie Sanders U.S. Senator from Vermont Geoffrey Hinton Godfather of Deep Learning Pope Leo XIV Head of the Catholic Church