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CLAT — The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a national-level entrance examination conducted by the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) for admission to 5-year integrated LLB and LLM programmes at 24 NLUs across India; it consists of 120 passage-based questions in 120 minutes across five sections — English Language, Current Affairs & GK, Legal Reasoning, Logical Reasoning, and Quantitative Techniques — with +1 for correct and −0.25 for incorrect answers; there is no fixed pass mark as admission is merit-based, and competitive scores for top NLUs typically fall above 50%.
28
Questions
120m
Time Limit
50.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 28👑 VIP
Read the following passage carefully and answer the question. Passage: The question of whether artificial intelligence can be granted legal personhood has become one of the most contested debates in contemporary jurisprudence. Proponents argue that as AI systems demonstrate increasingly sophisticated decision-making capabilities, the existing legal framework — designed around human and corporate actors — is inadequate to address liability gaps that emerge when autonomous systems cause harm. They contend that granting legal personhood to AI would allow courts to assign responsibility more efficiently and incentivise developers to build safer systems. Critics, however, warn that legal personhood is not merely a technical designation but a normative category tied to moral agency — the capacity to understand, deliberate, and be held morally responsible for one's actions. Since AI systems, however sophisticated, operate within parameters set by their programmers and lack genuine intentionality, extending legal personhood to them risks diluting a concept that carries profound ethical weight. A middle path, suggested by some scholars, involves creating a new sui generis legal category for AI entities — one that confers limited legal capacities for specific purposes without importing the full moral freight of personhood. Q1. What does the passage identify as the primary argument made by proponents of AI legal personhood?
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