UK report says robots will have rights

Financial Times ^ | 12/19/06 | Salamander Davoudi

[GOP_Thug_Mom]

wow--is this like "A. I."??

[hawkeye101]

[traviskicks]

“If granted full rights, states will be obligated to provide full social benefits to them including income support, housing and possibly robo-healthcare to fix the machines over time,” it says.





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[Paradox]

“If we make conscious robots they would want to have rights and they probably should,”

If my grandmother had balls, she'd be my grandfather.

[WoofDog123]

so much wrong with this concept i am not sure where to start

1) robot voting will pretty much allow removal of human votes as having control of the state's elected offices, not that that seems to help much now
2) can only assume robots would have more rights than humans, or more protections.
3) would be ideal citizen/subject/tax serfs, how can any government not like the idea? have the manufacturers build in some consumption requirements and everyone is happy (except human serfs).

[GSWarrior]

Fascinating!

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

This idiocy assumes that "robots" can be given intelligence. In other words, "artificial intelligence".
The left will do anything to put down human intelligence, even if it means promoting this sort of nonsense.

[LibWhacker]

It'd sure take all the guesswork and speculation out of election eve... Whomever manufacturers the greatest number of robots, wins.

[traviskicks]

lol, yea whatever happened to 'for the children'. Now it's 'for the robots'... lol

[kcar]

Their rights come their Creator. They're toasters.

[Clinging Bitterly]

Ha. I remember reading an adaptation of that a long time ago. If I remember right it was in I, Robot and Other Stories, a compilation of mostly Asimov tales, including some very old ones written under his original nome de plume, Paul French.

The premise seemed corny back when I read it, and it still does today. But these people have hijacked an 85 year old theme and marketed it as their own original thought. To what end, I don't know.