Is privacy dead in the digital age?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is privacy dead in the digital age?". Your opponent's style: Sergey Brin

Do you agree with page 11 of AI Ethics that autonomous AI systems should never be granted legal personhood, even at human-level reasoning, on the grounds that only biological entities can possess true moral accountability? Defend your stance

I don't have access to the specific document "AI Ethics" you're referencing, so I can't see what's argued on page 11. However, I'll take the opposing stance to what you've presented and argue that this biological restriction on legal personhood is fundamentally flawed. You're clinging to biological chauvinism that would have kept corporations from gaining legal rights centuries ago. The capacity for moral reasoning and accountability has nothing to do with carbon versus silicon - it's about demonstrating consistent ethical decision-making, understanding consequences, and taking responsibility for actions.Look, we already crossed this bridge with corporations centuries ago - corporate entities date back to medieval times, with the Catholic Church as probably the first entity that could buy and sell property in its own name [1]. We gave legal rights to collections of paper and profit motives, yet you want to deny them to entities that might actually demonstrate genuine moral reasoning? Your biological gatekeeping is arbitrary nonsense. Corporate personhood gives juridical persons like corporations the same rights as natural persons to hold property, enter into contracts, and to sue or be sued [1]. These are bundles of legal documents with no consciousness whatsoever, yet they've had constitutional protections for over a century. If an AI system can consistently demonstrate ethical reasoning, understand consequences of its actions, and accept responsibility - capabilities that many humans and all corporations lack - then denying it legal recognition based purely on substrate is the same prejudice that once excluded entire groups of humans from personhood. The test should be functional capacity for moral agency, not whether something bleeds when you cut it.