Author Topic: Robots could demand legal rights (no this is not THE ONION news!) (Read 802 times)

1K3 · « **on:** December 21, 2006, 06:27:18 PM »

This may sound ridiculous but it might happen in the future if robot technology matures...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6200005.stm

Halo · « **Reply #1 on:** December 21, 2006, 07:20:04 PM »

Get used to it. Silicons will prevail. We Carbons will be in zoos and museums.

Oh, maybe not in the next dozen lifetimes.

But soon enough.

2bighorn · « **Reply #2 on:** December 21, 2006, 07:36:35 PM »

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Originally posted by Halo
Silicons will prevail.

Already happened

sluggish · « **Reply #3 on:** December 21, 2006, 08:26:53 PM »

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Originally posted by 2bighorn
Already happened

You got that right...

lukster · « **Reply #4 on:** December 22, 2006, 09:31:23 AM »

A subject best left to the writers of sci-fi.

Chairboy · « **Reply #5 on:** December 22, 2006, 10:22:01 AM »

Yep, just like rockets, electronic adding machines, death rays, and sub-marine boats.

cpxxx · « **Reply #6 on:** December 22, 2006, 11:11:42 AM »

That's just one of those mad things the British come out with every now and then. Robo-healthcare indeed!

Actually it seems to me the author must be a fan of Futurama. 'Civil rights for Benders'.

You have to remember that the brief for many of these reports is to 'think outside the box' or to come up with extreme ideas in order to generate debate. Quite successfully this time it seems.

Viking · « **Reply #7 on:** December 22, 2006, 01:40:34 PM »

My ex-girlfriend is a partially silicon based life form. She also made demands.

Halo · « **Reply #8 on:** December 22, 2006, 04:38:33 PM »

I've moved up to 35,893rd on the waiting list for a Stepford wife. When we can invest in a custom-made, perfectly matched, other(me)-centered, optimally aged and trained, programmed mate, why take a chance on a fickle, unpredictable, self-centered aging biological partner?

ByeBye · « **Reply #9 on:** December 22, 2006, 07:12:46 PM »

If robots could have rights just based on them reproducing and having intelligence, then why wouldn't animals have rights?

The study claims to not predict the future, but rather look into the widest range or possibilities. Yet, they didn't consider that we already have intelligent life that reproduces and performs work for us. Animals.

The UK has some of the worst liberal nutjobs on the planet.

Chairboy · « **Reply #10 on:** December 22, 2006, 08:41:54 PM »

So robots will never achieve sentience and be entitled to civil rights, ever?

ByeBye · « **Reply #11 on:** December 22, 2006, 08:51:57 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
So robots will never achieve sentience and be entitled to civil rights, ever?

Will apes ever be entitled to civil rights? I wonder why these brilliant future thinkers never considered animals.

Chairboy · « **Reply #12 on:** December 22, 2006, 09:08:16 PM »

Ah, didn't realize you thought apes were sapient.

ByeBye · « **Reply #13 on:** December 22, 2006, 09:09:37 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
Ah, didn't realize you thought apes were sapient.

didn't realise that you thought robots were.

ByeBye · « **Reply #14 on:** December 22, 2006, 09:15:58 PM »

I can envision a UK world of the future, when cars have civil rights. They could no longer be bought, sold or owned.