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From Gwern's newsletter: did you know that algorithms already can obtain legal personhood?
Not scary at all.
What worries me is that if ransomware virus could own money, it could pay some human to install itself on others people computers, and also pay programmers for finding new exploits and even for the improvement of the virus.
But for such development legal personhood is not needed, only illegal.