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Re:Machine-owned enterprises are inevitable by crgt on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @11:11PM (#13937152)
The machine, obviously. Same way a corporation is named when they refuse to pay a bill. In our modern world, natural persons are merely a subset of 'persons'. No reason machines couldn't be included in the broader set. Rivers, corporations..why not machines?
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Re:Machine-owned enterprises are inevitable by parenthephobia on Thursday March 23, 2017 @08:32AM (#13939170)
Whanganui River, a river of great cultural significance to the people that live along it, was declared a legal person after 140 years of negotiation. This is not the same situation as a machine being declared a person because it responds correctly to legal documents.

Whilst there's no reason a machine couldn't be a legal person, in the sense that the sentence describes a possible future, that future is not near, and it will take more than a competent robolawyer to bring it about.

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