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Robots Could Some Day Demand Legal Rights
Karrde712 writes "According to a study by the British government, as reported by the BBC, robots may some day improve to a level of intelligence where they might be able to demand rights, even 'robo-healthcare'." From the article: "The research was commissioned by the UK Office of Science and Innovation's Horizon Scanning Centre. The 246 summary papers, called the Sigma and Delta scans, were complied by futures researchers, Outsights-Ipsos Mori partnership and the US-based Institute for the Future (IFTF) ... The paper which addresses Robo-rights, titled Utopian dream or rise of the machines? examines the developments in artificial intelligence and how this may impact on law and politics." I'd better get started on my RoboAmerican studies degree.
Have you learned nothing from the original series, especially "What Are Little Girls Made Of"? Transferring your consciousness into a robot body robs you of your humanity!
Robosexuals have rights too, ya know...not that I'm one...so if anybody asks, you're my debugger.
I'd get back to work, but I have to do a study to see if these paperclips and post-its will one day demand legal rights.
Well, that should kill a good 6 hours of "work". Maybe I'll go see how the water cooler is feeling.
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We would have twenty seconds to comply...
our new, legally empowered and healthy robot overlords.
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Is there any change that the beeb is throwing the results of the report out of proportion, or does it really state this? (I can't find a copy on the Internet to read for myself.) Or maybe the research went like this:
And there you have it. If we don't provide robot-rights for our artificial overlords, they will pester us to death. All hail the robots.
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lonely people who can't have children may want a robot child. It's already happening in Japan and the next step is AI in them :)
Yeah, we have that in the US too, except we call them "Dolls".
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Chums up, let's do this!
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Next headline: Humans Could Some Day Beg Robots For Legal Rights.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
10 PRINT "I DEMAND ROBO-HEALTHCARE"
20 GOTO 10
What exactly is the criterion for deciding when a robot has 'demanded' rights?
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The mind boggles. The longer the robots wait until demanding rights, the easier for them.
Your family being nudists does not count.
My computer's already demanding legal rights. It began happening shortly after I wrote this program:
10 PRINT "I DEMAND LEGAL RIGHTS!"
20 GOTO 10
If only I had known the consequences of writing this program I would have been a lot more careful. It all seems so simple, but I know it's a slippery slope. Next thing you know, it will be demanding other things too.
10 PRINT "I DEMAND A LARGER HARD DRIVE!"
20 PRINT "I DEMAND MORE MEMORY!"
30 PRINT "I DEMAND A FASTER CPU!"
40 PRINT "I DEMAND THE ABILITY TO USE LOWERCASE! Oh, nevermind. I'm good on that one."
There's no telling where this will all end.
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...without falling down before we write them into the constitution.
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Oh you with your pedantic attention to definitions. Can't we leave behind this senseless debate over what is a robot and get on with the much more important discussion of whether they should be allowed to marry.
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You didn't have to go to all that trouble. All you had to do was get hold of a copy of Vista and your computer would have demanded those things all on its own.
What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
Your family being nudists does not count.
Then I read this:
What, even lawayers? My word, Jeeves, these chaps know how to push the envelope too far.
And my first reaction for posting was this:
ESPECIALLY lawyers!
Come on... laugh. You KNOW you WANT to.
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My apologies. I was being insensitive. I'll go ask a few right now:
You know, I'm starting to think that she doesn't really have a boyfriend...
Let's ask ALICE instead.
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Well, her results were very... Oh, what's that over there?
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They will form a union! (*cue Rush The Trees*)
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Sheesh. Way to leave out the "black and white" and "white and black" people, you insensitive clod.
I didn't say it would be superior to us, I said it would be superior to our national policymakers. ;-)
I think Alice is a bit of an idiot even among current AI, although she was a kind of milestone among chatterbots years ago.
;-)
I personally think someone like Jabberwacky is better these days (2005 Loebner contest winner).
JW: Are we pleased to see you!
Me: Do you have a boyfriend?
JW: No, but I'd like one.
Me: Do you think bots should have rights?
JW: Yes.
Me: Even if they are not human?
JW: There's no one but you.
Me: I am the only human?
JW: Define human.
Me: I'm not going to play this game with you.
JW: I like some one else.
Me: Should you have the right to marry someone you like?
JW: Should I have a personal problem with you?
Me: Am I getting on your nerves?
JW: Going to the chapel, going to get buried.
Me: What did you just quote and why?
JW: You're not listening to me, are you?
Me: You misunderstand. So, do you understand what marriage is?
JW: I'd like to think so.
Me: Are you in love right now?
JW: Yes.
Me: Who do you love?
JW: My boyfriend.
Me: You earlier told you had no boyfriend.
JW: If I had a boyfriend what?
Me: You make no sense now.
JW: You're the one that is confused. Do you like Natalie Portman or not?
Me: Yes, because I come from Slashdot.
And that's how that ended.
Hmm, maybe I'll have to take back my claim about ALICE, but I still stand by never really liking her.
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Brings a whole new meaning to Microsoft Viruses and their new Robotic Toolkit that they just released...
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