Robots 'will demand rights'
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Rapid advances in technology mean cyborgs, or human-like robots, are no longer a vision of a distant future.
The machines have been made famous by films like Terminator and Blade Runner but real life is increasingly catching up with fiction.
Earlier this year researchers announced they had created robot ‘scientists’ – complete with the ability to think for themselves.
As the machines become more sophisticated, they will increasingly seem more like humans and could demand ‘human rights’, Anna Russel, from the University of San Diego warns.
One of the flashpoints could be over relationships, including sexual relationships, with humans, she claims.
In an article titled “Blurring the love lines” she warns: “While this humanoid is a giant leap forward technologically, if a self-aware, super-intelligent, thinking, feeling humanoid is developed, the legal system will be hard-pressed to distinguish this creature legally from human actors on grounds not stemming from a religious or moral prejudice.”
Lawyers have to start thinking now about what rights should be accorded to cyborgs, she argues.
Most societies will want to regulate such relationships but Russel claims they have to prepare themselves for how they would respond if the cyborgs clamoured for sexual freedoms.
As the technology improves “it will be inevitable that legal issues would be raised and the love lines blurred,” she warns.
“In what way would such sexual activities be regulated, however, and how regulation would work is not clear.”
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Ajil
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when the robots demand their rights, it would be silly for a single human to object. its funny that we even have to discuss this in order to lower humans' self-righteous entitlement to be in power. At the same time, its evident that humans believe anything and everything belongs to us, and we can do what ever we want with it all; just look at how people believe they should occupy every part of this planet, no matter how fragile the ecosystem, the ownership and cruelty of animals, the consumption of every possible resource. Yup, humans as a collective need an "ego check."
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Ajil
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DeliaTheArtist
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Perfect picture. The Animatrix was awesome and the two stories of the robot revolution, the Second Renaissances, were creepy, scary and right on target!
We're a long way from having to deal with this, but if we give AI the ability to reason, respond to emotional states and live among us, they SHOULD fight for their rights!
- 2 years ago
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DeliaTheArtist
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CalPal
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You know, I honestly think Hollywood blows the whole robot threat out of proportions.
I truly think that, should robots aquire true AI, they'll behave just like any other human: you might have radical robots, you might have robots more sympathetic to humans, and you'll have robots wanting to do whatever they want in the middle.
If robots were given "consciousness" and "morals", would they not "feel" as if killing anything (robots, humans, etc.) might be wrong?
I dunno, I just find the idea of AI interesting and exciting.
- 2 years ago
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CalPal
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royulery
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pope announces first robot priests to begin assembly today on the anniversary of saint nutnipples.
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royulery
