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Comment by John Ehrett
Lawyer and policy researcher
Importantly, however, the answer to this threshold question does not imply an answer to the subsidiary question of whether legal personhood should attach to AI systems. There are sound legal reasons for rejecting theories of AI personhood predicated on either line of analogy. In a legal or political environment operating on the theory that AI systems are more akin to tools, courts and legislators should resist the temptation to subsume AI outputs or activities into existing doctrines of legal personhood, such that actions carried out through AI systems, or content disseminated through chatbot interfaces, logically enjoy First Amendment protections.AI Verified source (Apr 2026)
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The quote qualifies because, in the article’s context, "either line of analogy" refers to the two routes to AI personhood the author discusses: corporate personhood and nonhuman-animal personhood. The author says there are "sound legal reasons for rejecting" those theories, urges courts and legislators to resist extending legal personhood to AI outputs, and later concludes that AI personhood theories should be rejected "whether as an extension of existing principles of corporate personhood" or otherwise. That clearly establishes opposition to granting AI agents legal personhood through the corporate analogy. ([ifstudies.org](https://ifstudies.org/report-brief/artificial-intelligence-and-theories-of-personhood-a-critical-appraisal))
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The quote says there are "sound legal reasons for rejecting theories of AI personhood" and that courts should "resist" subsuming AI activity into existing legal-personhood doctrines. In the article’s broader context, the author says AI personhood can be rejected "whether as an extension of existing principles of corporate personhood" or otherwise, which directly opposes granting AI agents personhood through the non-human-corporation analogy. ([ifstudies.org](https://ifstudies.org/report-brief/artificial-intelligence-and-theories-of-personhood-a-critical-appraisal))
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Verified on the Institute for Family Studies page: the article is titled “Artificial Intelligence and Theories of Personhood: A Critical Appraisal,” credited “by John Ehrett,” and dated “April 2026” (month precision). The quoted sentences appear verbatim in the body at lines 151 and 154, with only a section heading between them; the stored author, date, source URL, and wording are otherwise correct. ([ifstudies.org](https://ifstudies.org/report-brief/artificial-intelligence-and-theories-of-personhood-a-critical-appraisal))
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YouCongress
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