Update on the Dumbo Case
On December 26, 2017, Judge James M. Bentivegna summarily dismissed the NhRP’s petition for a writ of habeous corpus for the release and...
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Elephant Seeks Human Rights
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...
Manhattan Court denies Chimps "personhood"; Amicus Curiae brief cited
A Manhattan judge today denied a petition for habeas corpus to release two chimpanzees held by the State University of New York at Stony...
Harvard Law Prof. Laurence Tribe Files Amicus Brief Supporting Personhood for Chimps
I had the pleasure of meeting Professor Laurence Tribe over twenty years ago when, as general counsel of Borland Software (makers of the...
Kohn Files Amicus Brief Opposing Writ of Habeas Corpus for Stony Brook Chimps
I filed an amicus curiae brief in New York court in Manhattan last week opposing a petition by the NonHuman Rights Project seeking the...
Controversy Surrounds Manhattan Judge's Ruling on Chimp Order; Kohn honored with NY Times' Q
After a Manhattan judge signed an order for a hearing regarding the petition by the NonHuman Rights Project's petition for the release of...
Manhattan Judge Signs Order to Show Cause Why Chimps are Not People
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...
Amicus Curiae Brief Opposes Human Rights for Chimpanzee
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...
NRP Seeks Review by NY Ct. of Appeals
On December 4, 2014, the Appellate Division of the NY Supreme Court rejected the appeal by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) for a writ...
Chimps are not 'persons' with human rights
Today, a three-judge panel of a NY State Appellate Division ruled unanimously to deny personhood to a chimp named Tommy. In the amicus...
Hearing Held in NY State Court on Personhood for Chimps
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...
Amicus Brief Filed to Oppose Writ of Habeas Corpus for Chimps
Earlier today, I filed an amicus brief in opposition to a lawsuit by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) to release a chimp from captivity...
Daniel Dewey on Intelligence Explosion
Daniel Dewey, a research fellow on Machine Superintelligence and the Future of AI at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute,...
Legal Analysis: A Chimp is Not A Person Under NY Law
In an earlier post, I promised to review the legal arguments proffered by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) in their petition for the...
Stephen Hawking Sounds AI Alarm
In today's Independent, famed-physicist Stephen Hawking joined several colleagues in sounding the alarm about the risks of artificial...
Movie Review: Transcendence - Uploading the Human Mind
After the singularity scientist Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is shot by an anti-robot extremist, Caster's wife, Evelyn, manages to upload...
NY 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...
Movie Review: Her - Exploring a Personal Relationship between a Man & his AI
On the suggestion of an advertisement, Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) downloads what the ad declares to be the first artificially...
Animal 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...
Blog to Explore the Legal & Ethical Aspects of AI
Deep-seated fears of technology have long been a subject that has repeatedly surfaced in the imaginative realm of sci-fi writers--from...