Roman Tiraspolsky/Alamy Stock Photo June 21, 2022 From AIs to an unhappy elephant, the legal question of who is a person is approaching a reckoning Joshua Jowitt, Newcastle University Courts already grapple with the consequences of AI sentience but ignore the same for animals.
Bronx Zoo elephant ‘Happy’ strolls inside the zoo’s Asia Habitat in New York. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews January 6, 2021 Happy the elephant was denied rights designed for humans – but the legal definition of ‘person’ is still evolving Joshua Jowitt, Newcastle University Happy has lived alone in captivity for 14 years, but a New York appeals court recently denied a legal effort to rehome her.
Fly me to the moon. Nednapa July 31, 2015 Even educated fleas do it … but is animal sex spicier than we thought? Jamie Lawson, Durham University Scientists have tended to think of nonhuman sexual behaviour as being all about reproduction. In fact, there is far more ha ha hee hee than we give animals credit for.