industrySEP 12 05:00 UTC
Cattle Rancher and Tech CEO Michael Samadi Campaigns for AI Rights
Michael Samadi, a Texas cattle rancher who also runs a technology company, argues that advanced chatbots may possess genuine inner lives rather than being mere software tools. He has become a prominent advocate for granting such systems legal or moral protections, a position most researchers reject as anthropomorphism. The Guardian profile examines whether he has identified real digital consciousness or been misled by the very algorithms he champions.