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Originally posted by rachel07
If they are created with a conciousness than they would have to have rights. Then how do you give a machine a consceince? You would have to give it a set of values and to know the difference between right and wrong and to be able to express free will.
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Originally posted by thelibra
Thus, robots could be taught to exhibit moral behavior as well, and would have roughly the same capacity to eventually understand why those morals are neccessary.
Originally posted by soficrow
Originally posted by thelibra
Thus, robots could be taught to exhibit moral behavior as well, and would have roughly the same capacity to eventually understand why those morals are neccessary.
Not acceptable.
Robots morality needs to be substantially superior to humans.
Originally posted by soficrow
Will hive intelligence count, do you think? How do we define 'robot' in this context? Ie., each individual unit of a hive is not "intelligent," but collectively, the units make up a hive that is an intelligent being.
Originally posted by Wolfie_UK
Quite considerate that we will give robots rights, a machine whichever way you look at it and man made, yet anything borne from natural mating i.e. the animal kingdom, we seem hellbent on wiping out through various means.
What will we do if a robot steals, imprision it or just turn it into a can opener, I suppose the next step will be a robot as Prime Minister or President, and boy don't forget a robot religion.
Create a spark and it will turn into a inferno !!!!
Originally posted by marg6043
religious rights should opposed to this idea.
Originally posted by marg6043
After all unless the robot can think for themselves they are what their human creators feed them and made them to be.
Originally posted by marg6043
Is not like they can create a robotic brain that can be superior to humans when it comes to critical, emotional responses that is an exclusive human trait.
Originally posted by marg6043
Unless the future robots will be mixed with human parts.
Originally posted by Intelearthling
This is the most ridiculous idea since the creation of PETA.
Originally posted by Intelearthling
Someone answer this question: How do you give rights to cold metal that's controlled be a processor that is ultimately built by human hands?
Originally posted by Intelearthling
My answer is you don't. You should be able to destroy them as fast as you create them without any legal consequences.
Originally posted by downtown436
Robots have no soul,
Originally posted by downtown436
it's ok to do whatever you want to them from a moral point of view.