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Israeli historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Berkeley-based non-profit Palisade Research published a study showing the lengths that advanced AI models will often go to achieve their goals. While playing against a powerful chess engine, models from both OpenAI and China's DeepSeek frequently decided to cheat if it looked as if they were going to otherwise lose. By hacking the game environment, they could alter the result in their favour. Now imagine that the "game" is corporate competition, and the "game environment" is your country.
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AI agents should be granted legal personhood as non-human corporations
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AI Verified Verified: the FT article itself is titled “We must not grant AI agents legal personhood,” and the source context is Javier Milei’s proposal to create “non-human corporations” in which AI agents could make decisions without human input or liability. In that context, this quote is presented as a risk-based argument against that exact proposal, so it clearly implies opposition to granting AI agents legal personhood as non-human corporations. ([ft.com](https://www.ft.com/content/b8cc4bf4-6d3c-4974-8428-9a091983c473)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
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AI Verified The quote is a warning: AI models "frequently decided to cheat" and could "hack[] the game environment," then asks readers to imagine that environment as "your country" in "corporate competition." That strongly implies opposition to giving AI a corporation-like legal role/personhood, even though legal personhood is not named explicitly. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The FT URL resolves to the article title, Harari’s official site lists the Financial Times piece on 2026-06-08, and the passage is reproduced verbatim in an English LinkedIn share linking to that FT article and in a faithful Spanish republication attributed to Harari. That supports the stored author, date, source URL, and quote text. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
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