AI and personality: a case for partial legal personhood

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dc.contributor.authorKitao, T. H.
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-14T10:26:45Z
dc.date.available2025-11-14T10:26:45Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionFull - text undergraduate research project
dc.description.abstractWhat does it mean to be a legal person? Better yet, who can be a legal person? And why would one need legal personality? AI has revolutionised the world much like electricity did but unlike electricity, it is stirring waves in legal academic and policy creation circles. This is because the nature of AI, somewhere in the dissection of a Venn Diagram of things and humans, does not neatly fit into the moulds we have created in our legal regimes. This project then seeks to examine the possibility of the creation of a new category of juridical persons and if it is at all necessary, to begin with. It does this via three research objectives: separating legal personality from moral personality and how that might affect the creation of any new legal categories, considering the peculiarities of AI to our current regime to seek a justification for the creation of new categories for persons and lastly, analysing the current global position on recognition and regulation of AI to see what benefit a new category of legal personhood would entail. This project seeks to make a case for Partial Legal Personhood, a concept borrowed from the Germanic Private Law concept of ‘Teilrechtsfähigkeit’ as a possible solution to the status question. It argues that Partial Legal Personhood is not a new category of juridical persons like Electronic Personhood as proposed by the European Parliament, but a re-articulation of a contemporary understanding of what legal personhood entails. Finally, I conclude in this project that the adoption and adaptation of Partial Legal Personhood is justifiable because that would provide a means of legal redress for the continued commercialised use of AI if harms (foreseen and unpredicted) occur.
dc.identifier.citationKitao, T. H. (2024). AI and personality: A case for partial legal personhood [Strathmore University]. http://hdl.handle.net/11071/15851
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11071/15851
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherStrathmore University
dc.titleAI and personality: a case for partial legal personhood
dc.typeThesis
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