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This bill amends Tennessee law to provide clear definitions for key terms related to personhood, specifically focusing on distinguishing between human beings and technological entities. The legislation defines "person" to include corporations and associations while explicitly excluding artificial intelligence, computer algorithms, software programs, computer hardware, and machines from this classification. It also introduces new definitions for "human being" as an individual member of the homo sapiens species, including unborn humans from fertilization to full gestation, and "life" as the biological condition that distinguishes living organisms from inorganic matter, characterized by growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death. Similarly, "natural person" is defined as an individual living member of the homo sapiens species, again explicitly excluding technological entities. The purpose of these definitional amendments appears to be to create legal clarity about what constitutes a person or living entity under Tennessee law, particularly in the context of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, by ensuring that only biological human beings are recognized as persons. The bill will take effect immediately upon becoming law, as determined by the Tennessee General Assembly.

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https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB0837&ga=114