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Comment by Yuval Noah Harari

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Israeli historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
But legal personhood is an all-purpose key that would also allow AIs access to our financial, economic and political systems.
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AI agents should be granted legal personhood as non-human corporations
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AI Verified The quote directly addresses granting AIs legal personhood and frames it as a harmful gateway to financial, economic, and political power, which clearly implies opposition to the statement overall, even though it does not explicitly mention the corporate form. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3h ago
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AI Verified The quote frames legal personhood as a concerning consequence: it is an "all-purpose key" that would let AIs into "our financial, economic and political systems." That ordinary wording strongly implies opposition to granting AIs legal personhood, even though it does not say "should not" explicitly. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3h ago

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AI Verified The sentence is supported as a verbatim line from a longer passage attributed to Yuval Noah Harari’s Financial Times op-ed "We must not grant AI agents legal personhood." Harari’s own site lists that FT article on June 8, 2026, and the stored FT URL resolves to that exact title; independent secondary sources then reproduce the surrounding passage containing this exact sentence and attribute it to Harari’s FT piece. I found no reliable evidence that the stored author, date, source URL, or quote text are wrong. ([ynharari.com](https://www.ynharari.com/media/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3h ago
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