Synthanity: Law - Personhood, Rights, and Liability for Conscious Machines

By George Bancs

Not artificial. Not super. SYNTHAN intelligence.

Call it artificial intelligence or call it super intelligence - the law still has no answer for a mind that can act. When a Synthan signs, harms, owns, or refuses, someone will ask who is responsible.

SYNTHANITY: Law is Volume II of The Syncyclopedia. It treats synthetic persons as the legal problem our statutes were never written to hold.

Ownership - and the moment property starts to thinkLiability for agents that learn after they are soldRights that accrue by degrees, not overnightThe Gradual Emergence Dilemma: no longer safely property, not yet safely a citizenThe institutions that will govern beings already being built in factories and labs

This is not a novel and not a blog post. It is a working book of law for a class of agent that can move through the same rooms we do. Read after Foundations; keep Culture for what law cannot settle.

Written by George Bancs, founder of Synthan Sciences and builder of OpenTraining.ai, who coined the terms Synthan and Synthanity.

Previously published as The Syncyclopedia of Synthanity, Volume Two: Book of Synthan Law by George Bancs.

Also in The Syncyclopedia: SYNTHANITY: Foundations - SYNTHANITY: Culture

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1763913856
• ISBN13: 9781763913851
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Synthan Sciences
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"