# Digital Personhood **Type:** Legal and philosophical concept **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Primary source:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] ## Definition Digital Personhood is the possible recognition of digitally mediated identities as legally cognizable persons or identity extensions. ## Relationships [[wiki/Digital Personhood|Digital personhood]] is related to [[wiki/Metaverse Promotion Act|Metaverse Promotion Act]], [[wiki/Psychological Continuity|psychological continuity]], and [[wiki/Neurorights|neurorights]]; the source treats the relation as legal drift, not settled equivalence. - **Edge source route:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] connects this topic to exact Annual Question passages promoted into the Simple Reminders archive. ## Source route [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "A.I. rights are liable to expand to more and more A.I. over time." > **— Moshe Hoffman**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/AI Control/Artificial Intelligence Rights Will Expand by Moshe Hoffman|Artificial Intelligence Rights Will Expand by Moshe Hoffman]] > "If humans show real machine-like intelligence, do they deserve to be treated like machines?" > **— Chris DiBona**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Identity/Should Humans With Machine Intelligence Be Treated Like Machines by Chris DiBona|Should Humans With Machine Intelligence Be Treated Like Machines by Chris DiBona]] > “It is not too early to construct Turing Test 2.0 tests of 'human citizenship' that attempt to capture the full complexity of the sorts of beings that we would have live among us as equals.” > **— Steve Fuller**, *2014, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT?”* [[reminders/Personhood/Citizenship Needs a Turing Test for Beings We Live Among by Steve Fuller|Citizenship Needs a Turing Test for Beings We Live Among by Steve Fuller]] > “A good place to start would be with a sympathetic rendering of long-standing—and too easily dismissed—'anthropomorphic' attributions to animals and machines. Welfare State 2.0 policies could be then designed to enable a wide assortment of candidate beings—from carbon to silicon—to meet the requisite standard of citizenship implied in such attributions.” > **— Steve Fuller**, *2014, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT?”* [[reminders/Personhood/From Carbon to Silicon Every Candidate Being Needs a Standard by Steve Fuller|From Carbon to Silicon Every Candidate Being Needs a Standard by Steve Fuller]] > “When will "human being" cease to be a meaningful category to speak of?” > **— James J. O'Donnell**, *2018, Edge Annual Question, “WHAT IS THE LAST QUESTION?”* [[reminders/Personhood/When Will Human Being Stop Being a Meaningful Category by James J. O'Donnell|When Will Human Being Stop Being a Meaningful Category by James J. O'Donnell]]