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Ethical Questions For The Age Of Robots

Posted by timothy on from the robots-can-lawfully-dismember-tailgaters dept.

balancedi writes "Should robots eat? Should they excrete? Should robots be like us? Should we be like robots? Should we care? Jordan Pollack, a prof in Comp Sci at Brandeis, raises some unusual but good questions in an article in Wired called 'Ethics for the Robot Age.'"

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  1. Should a slave have ethics? by themusicgod1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A slave is a tool. Any attempt to insist that they should have ethics is anthropomorhising them far beyond what they are or will ever be. Asking if a slave should have ethics is like asking if a hammer should have ethics.

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  2. oh right by themusicgod1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Course, if these same people have parents who can't afford to stay at home, or hire a babysitter for that matter, because the parents cannot afford to stay home or are too busy buying pointless crap they don't need, I can imagine the parent to this post being true. I must be getting old fashioned.

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