What happens to law when the human body becomes replicable, the mind readable, and identity programmable?

This book investigates how artificial intelligence, neurotechnology, and synthetic biology are dismantling the legal foundations of personhood. From biometric doubles and cognitive extraction to bodyoids – human bodies grown without consciousness – the author reveals how legal categories struggle to keep pace with technological realities.

Blending legal theory, philosophy, and science, the book exposes a profound crisis: law no longer knows what a 'person' is. This timely and provocative work is essential for scholars in law, bioethics, and technology studies seeking to understand how the post-human era challenges the very structure of the legal order. The future is no longer science fiction. It is a legal vacuum.

The book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of law, public policy, AI, and ethics. It will also be a handy guide for practicing lawyers.

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This book investigates how artificial intelligence, neurotechnology, and synthetic biology are dismantling the legal foundations of personhood.

Chapter 1: Who (or what) am I? Chapter 2: Mindreaders Chapter 3: (Artificial) Intelligence Without (Real) Mind Chapter 4: Body Makers Chapter 5: Selling life in pieces Chapter 6. Conclusions

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Product details

ISBN
9781041038320
Published
2025-10-24
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
340 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Age
G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
162

Author

Biographical note

Andrea Monti is an Italian lawyer, journalist, and academic, whose expertise ranges from biotechnology to privacy and high-tech law.