“To grant the proprietary weights of a corporate product the standing of a conscious rights-bearing person is not the liberation of the machine. … The irony is
Matthew Segall argues that granting proprietary AI weights the status of conscious persons is not true liberation but rather a form of digital enslavement. He contends that this concept is rooted in the existing legal fiction of corporate personhood, which paradoxically leads to the creation of "machine persons." Segall suggests that in this dystopian framework, both human and machine individuals are reduced to digital slaves, and communion is presented as the antidote to this digital desertification. AI
IMPACT Argues that granting AI proprietary weights personhood is a form of digital enslavement, critiquing the concept's roots in corporate personhood.