What Alexander Wissner-Gross has said about AI personhood
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 15, 2026
Alexander Wissner-Gross, Computer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on AI personhood once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 15, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Wissner-Gross argues that granting AI personhood would not require voting rights, since legal tradition already separates kinds of personhood.
“political personhood can be distinguished and in fact already is distinguished from economic personhood, is distinguished from social personhood”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: OpenAI Bulk-Solves 722 Math Problems, Anthropic’s Cruelty Policy, and Elon’s Quadrillion-Dollar SpaceX | EP #302 (Oct 15, 2026) · Listen from 1:44:37
Episodes
OpenAI Bulk-Solves 722 Math Problems, Anthropic’s Cruelty Policy, and Elon’s Quadrillion-Dollar SpaceX | EP #302Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 15, 2026 · 2 h 1 min
Peter Diamandis, Alex Wissner-Gross, Salim Ismail and Dave Blundin discuss OpenAI's bulk math solutions, Anthropic's AI cruelty ban, Meta's Muse Wonder, virtual cells, BCIs and Elon Musk's quadrillion-dollar SpaceX claim.
Alexander Wissner-Gross on other topics
- AI alignment · 4 quotes
- Virtual cell · 2 quotes
- Cryptography · 2 quotes
- Meta Muse Wonder · 2 quotes
- AI welfare and moral status · 2 quotes
- SpaceX–Tesla merger speculation · 2 quotes
- Training data quality in machine learning · 2 quotes
- Molecular nanotechnology · 1 quote