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posted by
adnohr
on January 19, 2017 at 11:56 PM
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I myself do not believe in giving human rights to things. It strikes me as very absurd to do so...If these self-driving cars ever become the norm, it is going to make for some interesting motor tort cases.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on January 19, 2017 at 9:05 AM
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Yes I will go further I demand that washing machines have rights, I mean have the right to choose what is suitable for washing. The vacuum cleaners must not be left out. I'll not mention computers because they are making me write this,a conspiracy no doubt. Seriously though Naut, Science Fiction probably portrays a possible scenario in the far out future, but I don't think it will concern us. Of course our scientists will then be much more advanced and be able to fix any foreseeable problem. Roll on Brexit. 
posted by
C_C_T
on January 19, 2017 at 7:04 AM
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This is an excellent post. My cat is owned by me simply because I can care for her and help to make her happy and teach as well as learn from her. She has emotions. I do not want a plastic, metal etc., thing in my environment with brain power and no emotion. They can never relate with emotion. It is so senseless. I once had a human tissue husband like that...Once is enough.
posted by
Justi
on January 19, 2017 at 12:16 AM
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I am with you, it's inane to give robots any rights whatsoever! sam 
posted by
sam444
on January 18, 2017 at 9:10 PM
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I used to read a lot of sci fi, including some that focused on
robot wars and revolt against the "human masters." I was highly impressed when an AI computer built by IBM beat out the human contestants on Jeopardy, but of late I've begun to be a little uneasy about the idea that computers/robots can invent themselves and will no longer need members of the human genome to innovate and design a purpose for them. Who knows, maybe they'll figure out a way to prevent hackers from taking down the power grid, and then what?
posted by
Pat_B
on January 18, 2017 at 4:35 PM
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This post reminds me of a movie that creep me out years ago called AI/Artificial Intelligence that deal with precisely this thinking Robots...
posted by
pendorin
on January 18, 2017 at 4:24 PM
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This post reminds me of a movie that creep me out years ago called AI/Artificial Intelligence that deal with precisely this thinking Robots...
posted by
pendorin
on January 18, 2017 at 4:24 PM
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Nautikos
I'm in total agreement. It's insane! Maybe it's the hops in the Belgium beer, not the water... They need think about making laws for the people who own robots, if they are going make laws on the subject. And the preface to those laws ought to be a reminder that robots, are "things." However, when robotics becomes incorporated into a human being, or another living being, in areas such as cardiac assistance or brain wave regulation, that opens another avenue of law, but that ain't the topic today. 
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on January 18, 2017 at 3:02 PM
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Definitely a topic for today, but I'm afraid that my mind is not quite up to a debate on the subject. I would think that the rights are for the humans to whom the thing belongs and/or constructed it or operates it.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 18, 2017 at 2:24 PM
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