Comment by Julian Braithwaite

The law has been creating artificial persons for centuries. A corporation cannot feel pain or fall in love. Yet a company is a legal person. [...] The same logic may be useful for AI. An advanced autonomous AI could be required to become an artificial legal person, with a registered identity, legal domicile and identifiable controller. [...] Part of the answer may, paradoxically, be to give them legal personhood: an identifiable entity to regulate, with defined powers and obligations, while preserving responsibility for those who create and deploy it.