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AI governance researcher at GovAI; former Pivotal Research AI Safety Fellow studying digital-minds policy and AI legal status.
Legislating against AI personhood this early eliminates policy options, risks unforeseen consequences and may erode public trust, before the implications of more advanced systems are understood.
AI Verified (Jun 1, 2026)
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Austin Smith, “Denying Personhood to AI: An Analysis of U.S. State Legislation on AI Legal Status,” Pivotal Research, June 1, 2026. The paper argues that early legislation against AI personhood eliminates policy options, risks unforeseen consequences, and may erode public trust before the implications of more advanced systems are understood.
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AI Verified Pivotal Research credits Austin Smith as researcher; its abstract contains the quoted sentence verbatim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago
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