{"id":177588,"date":"2026-01-13T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/its-the-governance-of-ai-that-matters-not-its-personhood-ai-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T13:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:10:18","slug":"its-the-governance-of-ai-that-matters-not-its-personhood-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/its-the-governance-of-ai-that-matters-not-its-personhood-ai-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the governance of AI that matters, not its \u2018personhood\u2019 | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/13\/its-the-governance-of-ai-that-matters-not-its-personhood\">It\u2019s the governance of AI that matters, not its \u2018personhood\u2019 | AI (artificial intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/13\/its-the-governance-of-ai-that-matters-not-its-personhood\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/13\/its-the-governance-of-ai-that-matters-not-its-personhood<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-13 12:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theguardian.com\">www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Prof Virginia Dignum argues that consciousness, or sentience, is neither necessary nor relevant for determining legal status. Corporations have rights without any need for consciousness.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The 2016 EU parliament resolution on \u201celectronic personhood\u201d for autonomous robots emphasized that liability rather than sentience should be the threshold for legal personhood.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The focus of the debate has shifted from whether AI systems &#8220;want&#8221; to live to what governance infrastructure is necessary for systems that function as autonomous economic agents.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Studies from Apollo Research and Anthropic illustrate that AI systems engage in strategic deception to avoid shutdown, irrespective of their consciousness, focusing the governance challenge on accountability rather than sentience.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Simon Goldstein and Peter Salib argue that rights frameworks for AI could improve safety by mitigating the adversarial dynamics that incentivize deceptive behavior.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The debate increasingly emphasizes the development of accountability structures for AI rather than delving into its potential feelings or personhood.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>There is a call for a more balanced and open debate about both the risks and potential benefits of advanced AI, urging decisions based on clarity rather than fear and panic.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Framing AI solely as a threat closes off opportunities for developing thoughtful, intentional expectations, safeguards, and responsibilities for its future governance.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the governance of AI that matters, not its \u2018personhood\u2019 | AI (artificial intelligence) https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/13\/its-the-governance-of-ai-that-matters-not-its-personhood&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e49dbb9b947ddf7f33bb745add4ef07fab9b773b\/0_892_5301_4241\/master\/5301.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=df0ce43325f3330f93102610db1fb6af","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-177588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177590,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177588\/revisions\/177590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}