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Giving Rights to Robots Is a Bad Idea (opens in new tab)

The rich have long used the fiction of “corporate personhood” to amass privileges while protecting themselves from accountability for their misdeeds. Now tech bros and venture capitalists want to further distort the concept of a person to include robots.

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