Porcupine_I on 12 July 2013
| SvennoJ said: Yes. Fetus's have rights, animal species have rights, frozen piece of rock has rights (Antartica), robots will get rights too. Sentient computer programs won't begin with robots though. And why assume that robots will have individual minds, a hive mind scenario might be more plausible. Humans never had the benefit of always online, with robots that will be natural. So will skynet get rights? We can already make programs that can learn. http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/18/numenta-grok/ http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/513696/deep-learning/ A sentient program will first be made using the cloud. |
That's the thing, the moment robots may deserve rights, they won't need them any more. We will be lucky if they think that we deserve rights 
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
