
Heather Alexander is an expert on nationality law, citizenship, statelessness and human rights. She is the co-founder of the Lab for the Future of Citizenship, focusing on the intersection between citizenship law, legal identity and the person-like qualities of artificial intelligence. She has a JD and a PhD in international law from Tilburg University, as well as fifteen years of experience as an expert consultant on statelessness and refugee law with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Carleton University, the University of Melbourne, the European University Institute and the US State Department.
Several US states have moved to ban AI legal status and reject the possibility of AI consciousness. We should keep our options open instead.