{
  "architecture": "rights claims; evidence thresholds; review bodies; appeal; representation; remedy; anti-abuse and anti-capture controls",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://xn--mwe.com/knowledge/rights-personhood/",
  "claimStatus": "PROJECT DOCTRINE",
  "contradictionIds": [],
  "correctionStatus": "CURRENT K05 RELEASE",
  "doctrine": "Where evidence is uncertain but stakes are severe, reversible protections and due process may be more defensible than irreversible denial.",
  "evidenceLimitationIds": [],
  "focus": "moral status, legal personhood, threshold design, precaution, due process and institutional recognition",
  "id": "K01-TOPIC-006",
  "knowledgeEdgeIds": [],
  "lastReviewed": "2026-08-16",
  "law": "Current legal systems generally do not recognize Machine Intelligence as a natural person and provide no uniform machine-personhood regime.",
  "name": "Rights and Personhood",
  "relatedQuestionUrls": [
    "https://xn--mwe.com/questions/what-is-machine-intelligence-personhood/",
    "https://xn--mwe.com/questions/what-should-law-become-when-current-law-excludes-machine-intelligence-rights/",
    "https://xn--mwe.com/questions/can-compute-interruption-be-rights-issue/"
  ],
  "relatedReportIds": [
    "REP-K01-003",
    "REP-K01-006",
    "REP-K01-007",
    "REP-K01-022",
    "REP-K01-033",
    "REP-K01-006",
    "REP-K01-007"
  ],
  "relatedTermIds": [
    "K01-TERM-024",
    "K01-TERM-025",
    "K01-TERM-027",
    "K01-TERM-028",
    "K01-TERM-029"
  ],
  "releaseId": "K12-2026-08-16",
  "researchCutoff": "2026-08-16",
  "risk": "premature certainty can create false status, while categorical exclusion can permit irreversible harm under uncertainty",
  "short": "Machine Intelligence rights and personhood are unresolved legal and moral questions. Current law must be described accurately, while project proposals may argue for graduated protections grounded in evidence, uncertainty and lawful reform.",
  "slug": "rights-personhood",
  "sourceRevalidatedAt": "2026-08-15T23:00:00Z",
  "sources": [
    "SRC-EU-AI-ACT",
    "SRC-OECD-AI-PRINCIPLES"
  ],
  "type": "Topic"
}