1、HS ACAN FFRDC OPERATED BY RAND UNDER CONTRACT WITH DHSHOMELAND SECURITYOPERATIONAL ANALYSIS CENTERRESEARCH REPORTDANIEL M.GERSTEINEmerging Technology and Risk AnalysisDigital PersonhoodThis report describes the implications of digital personhood in all its potential formsfrom the digital proof of th

2、e existence of and representation for a physical human,to the use of digital twins that provide a virtual model of a physical object(in this case,a human),to a vir-tual(or synthetic)person.The report also describes the emerging technologies our team examined that make up these various forms of perso

3、nhood and the risks that this technology could present for U.S.Department of Homeland Security(DHS)missions.The material in this report builds on“Western philo-sophical thought regarding the existential concept of the self”and,for the purposes of this report,digital personhood.1In the previous repor

4、t,we concluded that arti-ficial intelligence(AI)and other digital technologies have fueled AI research and development(R&D)and brought the possibilitiesand the potential dangersof digital personhood to the forefront.These technologies include increasingly available data sources,high-performance comp

5、uting assets,semiconductor development and manufacturing,robotics,machine learning(ML),natural language processing,and generative AI.These technologies are enabled by converging technologies such as cyber,big data solutions,and the Internet of Things(IoT),to name a few.As the AI systems and enabling

6、 technologies have continued to mature and become more powerful,the uses of AI have expanded,the technology has become more readily available,the number of applications for the technology has expanded,and(in some cases)the technology has already surpassed human performancewhich is to say it has achi