States rush to deny AI personhood amid growing fight over who should regulate

States rush to deny AI personhood amid growing fight over who should regulate

Being a person in America grants certain inalienable rights. Wars were fought over it. The latest battle hinges on whether artificial intelligence, or AI, should be considered as much of a person as you and me.  Numerous states have either passed or are considering legislation that would prohibit AI from having the same rights as human beings. It comes at the same time the Trump administration has pushed to make AI regulation a matter of the fed…