If scientists got a machine to walk and talk - does/should it have rights?

[Biscuit]

If the worlds leading scientists created a robot so sophisticated it could think for itself and make judgement calls and decisions while interacting with others, would that machine deserve human rights?

Big fat YES from me.

Or perhaps you believe that it'd only prove that machines without consciousness can do the same tasks that we as humans can achieve, and it'd undermine what we believe to be consciousness and make it a less interesting area of study?

 

[Badger]

BURN it, it could be a witch.

 

[el_ciddy]

no, it's a robot.

 

[Biscuit]

BURN it, it could be a witch.

It could be used for evil, even if it inherently wasn't. If it didn't know what it was doing was wrong, could the blame still be on Mr. Robots shoulders?

 

[Mellotron]

If the worlds leading scientists created a robot so sophisticated it could think for itself and make judgement calls and decisions while interacting with others, would that machine deserve human rights?

Big fat YES from me.

Of course not. Bloody Siri on the iPhone can almost do what you're saying.

 

[Biscuit]

no, it's a robot.

If it can communicate with you and I with it's own thought processes, surely it deserves some level of protection?

 

[Mellotron]

It could be used for evil, even if it inherently wasn't. If it didn't know what it was doing was wrong, could the blame still be on Mr. Robots shoulders?

We're basically talking about the movie i, Robot here.

 

[El Sid]

Could it replace Barnes?

 

[Badger]

It could be used for evil, even if it inherently wasn't. If it didn't know what it was doing was wrong, could the blame still be on Mr. Robots shoulders?

Depends if he has a good lawyer.

 

[Biscuit]

Could it replace Barnes?

Could do a job.

 

[shaolinpunk]

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

 

[Bulldog]

If we are giving human rights to Kryton, what about hard light holograms?

 

[Benson]

Basic android rights to include access to WD40, 3in1 Oil and also to be wound up at least once a week.

 

[beorhthelm]

rights or human rights? very different propositions. animals think for themself and make decisions, some make judgments, but we recognise they need rights but at a lower threashold. shirely the same would be the case with autonomous robots, some rights but not the same as for humans?

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Have we not learned our lesson from the terminator films?

 

[RexCathedra]

It will not only have rights -- the Republican Party will nominate it for President.

 

[Questions]

If the worlds leading scientists created a robot so sophisticated it could think for itself and make judgement calls and decisions while interacting with others, would that machine deserve human rights?

Big fat YES from me.

Or perhaps you believe that it'd only prove that machines without consciousness can do the same tasks that we as humans can achieve, and it'd undermine what we believe to be consciousness and make it a less interesting area of study?

Have you nicked 'return of the rev's Baccy ?

 

[halbpro]

It will not only have rights -- the Republican Party will nominate it for President.

Isn't that what they've done with Romney already?

I'd say yes. If it was capable of thought and, more importantly, feeling like a human does then why deny it rights? If it can feel pain and distress from mistreatment in the same way we would then surely it deserves equivalent rights?

 

[jakarta]

Have we not learned our lesson from the terminator films?

Is the correct answer.

Terminators, Cybermen, Daleks, The Borg, all of them wrong 'uns........

 

[BrianSwan]

If it's like the one from Prometheus I wouldn't trust it