Personhood, Not Proof, Defines AI Rights // AIDRAN

The institutional problem is that consciousness is carrying too much work. It is being used as evidence of inner life, as a proxy for moral standing, and as a shortcut for personhood, even when those claims point in different directions. The Bradford-RIT framing around systems that act conscious but are not captures why behavioral evidence remains seductive but weak: performance can invite care without proving experience through . Once that distinction holds, the public argument changes: AI welfare advocates need a theory of moral status,…

AI Consciousness Debate Turns On Personhood, Not Proof

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