{"product_id":"the-line-ai-and-the-future-of-personhood-hardcover","title":"The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow AI will challenge our ideas about personhood.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChatbots like ChatGPT have challenged human exceptionalism: we are no longer the only beings capable of generating language and ideas fluently. But is ChatGPT conscious? Or is it merely engaging in sophisticated mimicry? And what happens in the future if the claims to consciousness are more credible? In \u003ci\u003eThe Line\u003c\/i\u003e, James Boyle explores what these changes might do to our concept of personhood, to \"the line\" we believe separates our species from the rest of the world but that also separates \"persons\" with legal rights from objects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe personhood wars--over the rights of corporations and animals, over the question of when life begins and ends--have always been contentious. We've even denied the personhood of members of our own species. How will those old fights affect the new ones, and vice versa? Boyle pursues these questions across a dizzying array of fields. He discusses moral philosophy and science fiction, transgenic species, nonhuman animals, the surprising history of corporate personality, and AI itself. Engaging with empathy and anthropomorphism, courtroom battles on behalf of chimps, and doom-laden projections about the threat of AI, \u003ci\u003eThe Line\u003c\/i\u003e offers fascinating and thoughtful answers to questions about our future that will arrive sooner than we think.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Boyle is the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School, the founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and former Chair of Creative Commons. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Public Domain\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShamans, Software and Spleens, \u003c\/i\u003e the coauthor of two comic books, and the winner of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for his work on digital civil liberties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 22, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44434937380966,"sku":"9780262049160","price":41.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Fyj4l6KK4w9780262049160.webp?v=1770475851","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-line-ai-and-the-future-of-personhood-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}