In an open letter to the European Commission a group of ‘Political Leaders, AI/robotics researchers and industry leaders, Physical and Mental Health specialists, Law and Ethics experts gathered to’ voice their concern about negative consequences of legal status to robots.
This echoes the concept that granted corporations personhood legal status, and the long debate over its convenience, how this notion spread and became usual in modern law.
The paragraph 59 f from report cited in the letter is by its turn based on the recommendations to the Commission on Civil Law Rules on Robotics that can give a thorough view on the grounds of what moved the Committee on Legal Affairs to propose it.