Academic papers
Do Stochastic Parrots Pine for Residual Fjords? Why Conscious LLMs Would Be Playwrights, not Characters
Jonathan Simon. Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 33 No. 7-8, 2026
Is There a Right to Receive Nonhuman “Speech” Under the US Constitution?
Heather Alexander, Jonathan Simon and Jeff Sebo. Forthcoming, Dartmouth Law Journal, 2026
How Should the Law Treat Future AI Systems? Fictional Legal Personhood vs Legal Identity
Heather Alexander, Jonathan A. Simon and Frédéric Pinard. Case Western Reserve Journal of Law, Technology and the Internet, 2025
The United Nations and Robot Rights
Heather Alexander. Canadian Journal of Law and Technology, 2023
Reports
Denying Personhood to AI: An Analysis of U.S. State Legislation on AI Legal Status
Austin Smith, Lucius Caviola and Heather Alexander. Cambridge Digital Minds, 2026
Op-eds and commentary
It’s Too Early To Ban AI Personhood
Heather Alexander and Lucius Caviola. AI Frontiers, 2026
Does AI Have Free Speech?
Heather Alexander, Jonathan Simon and Jeff Sebo. Duluth News Tribune, 2026
Ohio’s AI Personhood Ban Risks Outlawing the Future
Jonathan Simon and Heather Alexander. Ohio Capital Journal, 2025