AI legal personhood distresses AI ethicists since people could deviously scapegoat machines to avoid apt human responsibility, including in the case of AI-based self-driving cars
Legal personhood is a perhaps surprisingly controversial topic.
Actually, when you think mindfully about it, there has been a longstanding historical morass underlying the notion and scope of legal personhood. Are all humans imbued with legal personhood? What legal rights and restrictions are associated with legal personhood? If society deems that some people are to be denied legal personhood, is there any recourse to overcome such a rejection?