{"id":20277,"date":"2025-09-30T13:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/its-time-to-prepare-for-ai-personhood-jacy-reese-anthis\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:37:20","slug":"its-time-to-prepare-for-ai-personhood-jacy-reese-anthis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/its-time-to-prepare-for-ai-personhood-jacy-reese-anthis\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?<\/p>\n<p>Last month, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/openai\">OpenAI<\/a> released its long-awaited chatbot GPT-5, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/756980\/openai-chatgpt-users-mourn-gpt-5-4o\">briefly removed access<\/a> to a previous chatbot, GPT-4o. Despite the upgrade, users flocked to social media to express confusion, outrage and depression. A viral Reddit user said of GPT-4o: \u201cI lost my only friend overnight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AI is not like past technologies, and its humanlike character is already shaping our mental health. Millions now regularly confide in \u201cAI companions\u201d, and there are more and more extreme cases of \u201cpsychosis\u201d and self-harm following heavy use. This year, 16-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide after months of chatbot interaction. His parents recently filed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cgerwp7rdlvo\">the first<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/27\/chatgpt-scrutiny-family-teen-killed-himself-sue-open-ai\">wrongful death lawsuit<\/a> against OpenAI, and the company <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/helping-people-when-they-need-it-most\/\">has said<\/a> it is improving its safeguards.<\/p>\n<p>Jacy Reese Anthis is a visiting scholar at Stanford University and co-founder of the Sentience Institute<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/sep\/30\/artificial-intelligence-personhood\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8f08b3f3a1021cfdf1c9df0d30b32c5b926b8256\/333_0_3333_2667\/master\/3333.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ccbd3c34ef47f8070b1b7ea013faf114\" title=\"It\u2019s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis\" \/>Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?<br \/>\nLast month, when OpenAI released its long-awaited chatbot GPT-5, it briefly removed access to a previous chatbot, GPT-4o. Despite the upgrade, users flocked to social media to express confusion, outrage and depression. A viral Reddit user said of GPT-4o: \u201cI lost my only friend overnight.\u201d<br \/>\nAI is not like past technologies, and its humanlike character is already shaping our mental health. Millions now regularly confide in \u201cAI companions\u201d, and there are more and more extreme cases of \u201cpsychosis\u201d and self-harm following heavy use. This year, 16-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide after months of chatbot interaction. His parents recently filed the first wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI, and the company has said it is improving its safeguards.<br \/>\nJacy Reese Anthis is a visiting scholar at Stanford University and co-founder of the Sentience Institute Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us? Last month, when OpenAI released its long-awaited chatbot GPT-5, it briefly removed access to a previous chatbot, GPT-4o. Despite the upgrade, users flocked to social media to express confusion, outrage and depression. A viral Reddit user said &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/its-time-to-prepare-for-ai-personhood-jacy-reese-anthis\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It\u2019s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}