On December 26, 2017, Judge James M. Bentivegna summarily dismissed the NhRP’s petition for a writ of habeous corpus for the release and delivery of an eleph...

It has been a while since the NonHuman Rights Project has done something newsworthy, but we can now report that NhRP has moved on from chimps to elephants in...

A Manhattan judge today denied a petition for habeas corpus to release two chimpanzees held by the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The petition w...

I had the pleasure of meeting Professor Laurence Tribe over twenty years ago when, as general counsel of Borland Software (makers of the Quattro Pro spreadsh...

I filed an amicus curiae brief in New York court in Manhattan last week opposing a petition by the NonHuman Rights Project seeking the release of two chimpan...

After a Manhattan judge signed an order for a hearing regarding the petition by the NonHuman Rights Project's petition for the release of two chimps held by ...

The honorable Judge Barbara Jaffe of Manhattan has signed an order to show cause why a writ of habeas corpus should not be issued behalf of a nonhuman animal...

Yesterday, 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 Rights Project (NRP) t...

On December 4, 2014, the Appellate Division of the NY Supreme Court rejected the appeal by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) for a writ of habeas corpus it f...

Today, a three-judge panel of a NY State Appellate Division ruled unanimously to deny personhood to a chimp named Tommy. In the amicus brief I filed with the...

Yesterday, 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 captivity by means ...

Earlier today, I filed an amicus brief in opposition to a lawsuit by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) to release a chimp from captivity in upstate New York-...

Daniel Dewey, a research fellow on Machine Superintelligence and the Future of AI at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, has made available the...

In an earlier post, I promised to review the legal arguments proffered by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) in their petition for the release of several chim...

In today's Independent, famed-physicist Stephen Hawking joined several colleagues in sounding the alarm about the risks of artificial intelligence. Writing i...

After the singularity scientist Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is shot by an anti-robot extremist, Caster's wife, Evelyn, manages to upload her dying husband's mi...

The New York Times today put its considerable weight behind the question of whether non-human animals, such as chimpanzees, should be considered "persons" un...

On the suggestion of an advertisement, Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) downloads what the ad declares to be the first artificially intelligent operating s...

As one who could not be more sympathetic with the plight of animals suffering in captivity, I have been following with interest the work of attorney Steven W...

Deep-seated fears of technology have long been a subject that has repeatedly surfaced in the imaginative realm of sci-fi writers--from Asimov's iRobot to Sta...