Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Robo-rights:a study commissioned by the UK government

Humans are increasingly reliant on computers, robots and machines. Currently, robots and machines are inanimate objects without rights or duties. If artificial intelligence is achieved and widely deployed (or if they can reproduce and improve themselves) calls may be made for human rights to be extended to robots. If so, this may be balanced with citizen responsibilities (e.g. voting, paying tax). A push for robots' rights may clash with owners’ property rights. More strain may be placed on the environment (e.g. energy, waste, resource & space usage).

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1 comment:

Leopold said...

many of you might not remember but we had this discussion already four years ago after the invited talk by Jim Dator ....