2 papers
cs.AI2025
Towards a Theory of AI Personhood
Francis Rhys Ward
I am a person and so are you. Philosophically we sometimes grant personhood to non-human animals, and entities such as sovereign states or corporations can legally be considered pe…
cs.CL2024
Evaluating Language Model Character Traits
Francis Rhys Ward, Zejia Yang, Alex Jackson +7
Language models (LMs) can exhibit human-like behaviour, but it is unclear how to describe this behaviour without undue anthropomorphism. We formalise a behaviourist view of LM char…