This seems a good place to post a link to a very famous law review article called Should Trees Have Standing?[1], which discusses whether we should grant "stand

This seems a good place to post a link to a very famous law review article called Should Trees Have Standing?[1], which discusses whether we should grant "standing" (which, put simply, is the right to sue someone for violating some right of yours) to trees and other features of the natural world. I'm simplifying a bit, but that's the gist of it. The article had tremendous impact and today is required reading for many first-year law students. It is informed by / has informed quite a bit of the debate around environmental protection law, and the analysis seems like it should be relevant to questions of machines as well. Disclaimer: I haven't read the article since law school, and don't have time to do so now. But these kinds of questions (even before we get to something like reasonably good AGI, but especially so afterward) are only going to become more important, so I think this is a good place to plug this thought-provoking article. [1] https://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic498371.files/Stone.Trees_Standing.pdf https://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic498371.files/Sto...