November 2025
Jonathan Simon presented at the Eleos Conference on AI Consciousness and Welfare from November 21-23 in Berkeley, CA.
Jonathan Simon and Heather Alexander published an op ed in the Ohio Capital Journal on Ohio’s proposed AI personhood ban.
September 2025
Announcing our new publication: “How Should the Law Treat Future AI Systems : Fictional Legal Personhood vs Legal Identity” (forthcoming in the Case Western Journal of Law, Technology and the Internet)
Policy Lead Heather Alexander attended Digital Cooperation Day at the United Nations General Assembly opening in New York City.
May 2025
Director Jonathan Simon and Policy Lead Heather Alexander presented on AI agents, civil registration and border control at the MPC GLOBALCIT Conference on Contested boundaries: migration and citizenship regimes in comparative perspective at the European University Institute in Italy on 8-9 May.
March 2025
Policy Lead Heather Alexander presented on robot rights to law students at the University of British Columbia.
Director Jonathan Simon and Policy Lead Heather Alexander presented on robot rights at the Roundtable at McGill: “Should We Worry About the Welfare of AI?” with Jocelyn Maclure.
February 2025
Director Jonathan Simon and Policy Lead Heather Alexander presented on Robots and Legal Identity at the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Summit in New York.
NEW PAPER
To Preserve the Coherence of Our Legal System, Advanced AI Systems May Need a Legal Identity
HANDOUTS and SLIDES:
Lightning Talk Handout