Bob KohnDec 5, 20181 minUpdate on the Dumbo CaseOn December 26, 2017, Judge James M. Bentivegna summarily dismissed the NhRP’s petition for a writ of habeous corpus for the release and...
Bob KohnNov 16, 20171 minElephant Seeks Human RightsIt has been a while since the NonHuman Rights Project has done something newsworthy, but we can now report that NhRP has moved on from...
Bob KohnJul 30, 20151 minManhattan Court denies Chimps "personhood"; Amicus Curiae brief citedA Manhattan judge today denied a petition for habeas corpus to release two chimpanzees held by the State University of New York at Stony...
Bob KohnMay 22, 20153 minHarvard Law Prof. Laurence Tribe Files Amicus Brief Supporting Personhood for ChimpsI had the pleasure of meeting Professor Laurence Tribe over twenty years ago when, as general counsel of Borland Software (makers of the...
Bob KohnMay 16, 20151 minKohn Files Amicus Brief Opposing Writ of Habeas Corpus for Stony Brook ChimpsI filed an amicus curiae brief in New York court in Manhattan last week opposing a petition by the NonHuman Rights Project seeking the...
Bob KohnApr 22, 20151 minControversy Surrounds Manhattan Judge's Ruling on Chimp Order; Kohn honored with NY Times' QAfter a Manhattan judge signed an order for a hearing regarding the petition by the NonHuman Rights Project's petition for the release of...
Bob KohnApr 21, 20151 minManhattan Judge Signs Order to Show Cause Why Chimps are Not PeopleThe honorable Judge Barbara Jaffe of Manhattan has signed an order to show cause why a writ of habeas corpus should not be issued behalf...
Bob KohnMar 11, 20152 minAmicus Curiae Brief Opposes Human Rights for ChimpanzeeYesterday, I filed an amicus brief on behalf of The Center for the Study of the Great Ideas in opposition to a lawsuit by the Nonhuman...
Bob KohnFeb 27, 20151 minNRP Seeks Review by NY Ct. of AppealsOn December 4, 2014, the Appellate Division of the NY Supreme Court rejected the appeal by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) for a writ...
Bob KohnDec 4, 20141 minChimps are not 'persons' with human rightsToday, a three-judge panel of a NY State Appellate Division ruled unanimously to deny personhood to a chimp named Tommy. In the amicus...
Bob KohnOct 9, 20142 minHearing Held in NY State Court on Personhood for ChimpsYesterday, I attended the appellate hearing in the case of Nonhuman Rights Project v. Tommy, a suit filed by the NRP to free a chimp from...
Bob KohnMay 14, 20145 minAmicus Brief Filed to Oppose Writ of Habeas Corpus for ChimpsEarlier today, I filed an amicus brief in opposition to a lawsuit by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) to release a chimp from captivity...
Bob KohnMay 10, 20143 minDaniel Dewey on Intelligence ExplosionDaniel Dewey, a research fellow on Machine Superintelligence and the Future of AI at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute,...
Bob KohnMay 4, 20148 minLegal Analysis: A Chimp is Not A Person Under NY LawIn an earlier post, I promised to review the legal arguments proffered by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) in their petition for the...
Bob KohnMay 2, 20141 minStephen Hawking Sounds AI AlarmIn today's Independent, famed-physicist Stephen Hawking joined several colleagues in sounding the alarm about the risks of artificial...
Bob KohnApr 24, 20143 minMovie Review: Transcendence - Uploading the Human MindAfter the singularity scientist Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is shot by an anti-robot extremist, Caster's wife, Evelyn, manages to upload...
Bob KohnApr 23, 20142 minNY Times Weighs In: Is Chimp a Legal "Person"?The New York Times today put its considerable weight behind the question of whether non-human animals, such as chimpanzees, should be...
Bob KohnFeb 21, 20142 minMovie Review: Her - Exploring a Personal Relationship between a Man & his AIOn the suggestion of an advertisement, Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) downloads what the ad declares to be the first artificially...
Bob KohnDec 18, 20132 minAnimal Rights Activist Says Chimp is Legal "Person"As one who could not be more sympathetic with the plight of animals suffering in captivity, I have been following with interest the work...
Bob KohnNov 1, 20132 minBlog to Explore the Legal & Ethical Aspects of AIDeep-seated fears of technology have long been a subject that has repeatedly surfaced in the imaginative realm of sci-fi writers--from...