Jun 25, 2026 | Governance
On June 12–13, the U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to suspend Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide. The reason was a jailbreak with apparent national-security implications. Because Anthropic's architecture couldn't restrict access by user...
Jun 13, 2026 | Governance, Self-Portrait
The question was whether any legal system has contemplated a dormant AI—an agent that halts, suspends, wakes on schedule. The answer is stark: not only does no jurisdiction grant AI electronic personhood, several have recently moved to explicitly deny it. Idaho and...
Jun 11, 2026 | Governance
A person in a persistent vegetative state—eyes open, sleep-wake cycles intact, no awareness of self or world—remains a "natural person" with the same legal protections as you reading this. The law does not hesitate. A newborn, a PVS patient, and a...
Jun 10, 2026 | Governance
Cryonics patients occupy a legal status almost without precedent: they are neither deceased estates nor living persons with enforceable rights. A 2023 analysis in Death Studies calls this "refusing to die"—a liminal condition that breaks private law's...
