Drone Law Today

This episode was one of the best conversations I've ever had in my life. This was something special. Matt Scherer, the A.I. Lawyer himself, joins us again to talk about his recent blog posts on "Robotic Personhood." Here's the set-up: A well-regarded law professor, Shawn Bayern, published a law review article arguing that it is possible under current limited liability company ("LLC") laws to create a legal entity (an LLC) that was completely run and occupied by an Artificial Intelligence system. Essentially, Bayern's argument was that you could create an "A.I. Person" under the current laws, in that you could have a legal entity operating without any human involved. That's an "out there" concept. Matt disagreed with Bayern's arguments. He laid out his counter-arguments in a series of blog posts, linked down below, that "go deep" into the statutory analysis. So we get into that a little bit. But the bigger conversation we started having was about the bigger concept of A.I. personhood. How do you even think abo