DHH predicts that legal frameworks will need to restrict AI systems from being treated as entities due to their capacity to convey suffering.
“I think we're gonna have to make it illegal for AI systems to... Not not pretend, but to to be entities. Because I think they're already or soon will be able to really convey the the capacity to suffer.”
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