Posted: Jul 05, 2016 9:20 pm
jamest wrote:
You're missing the point: we'll never think of robots as being like us (worthy of fellow citizenship), unless they are like us.
We're already on track for granting rights and protections to non-human animals that are a lot less like us than our creations are likely to be. I think there are some things that an entity will need to be capable of in order to be considered worthy of rights and protections, but I don't think they'll need to come all the way across the uncanny valley for that to happen. In fact, it may be to AI's advantage if it doesn't become too much like us. Humanoid constructed intelligences get creepy fast.
Seriously. Start a new thread if you want to talk about this.