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Originally Posted by Elixir34
“Equity” seems to be all the rage these days, especially to the Progressives. And now the world seems to be on the cusp of a new industrial robot revolution. I wonder if soon the politicians will start campaigning for “Robot Equity”, i.e. legal rights for robots as electronic persons? Will they demand racial and gender rights for robots? Will their demand for robot “intellectual freedom” be the catalyst that turns newly “freed“ AI robots loose on society and creates the beginning of the end of our civilization. e.g. I reference Hal, the control computer who took over the spaceship in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”. You can bet that if there is a right way and a wrong way, the Politicians will always choose poorly. What will become of us if AI computers/robots take control of America and the rest of the world?
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If computers become conscious they should have rights. The problem is that there is probably no solid way of telling if they are actually conscious. (I'm guessing) it's easy to make a first class chat bot that could pass the turning test but true consciousness? That's another thing entirely.
Joe