DeclinetoState
12-19-2006, 11:58 PM
By Salamander Davoudi in London
Published: December 19 2006 22:01 | Last updated: December 19 2006 22:01
The next time you beat your keyboard in frustration, think of a day where it may be able to sue you for assault. Within 50 years we might even find ourselves standing next to the next generation of vacuum cleaners in the voting booth.
Far from being extracts from the extreme end of science fiction, the idea that we may one day give sentient machines the kind of rights traditionally reserved for humans is raised in a British government-commissioned report which claims to be an extensive look into the future.
Visions of the status of robots around 2056 have emerged from one of 270 forward-looking papers sponsored by Sir David King, the UK government’s chief scientist. The paper covering robots’ rights was written by a UK partnership of Outsights, the management consultancy, and Ipsos Mori, the opinion research organisation.FT.com (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/5ae9b434-8f8e-11db-9ba3-0000779e2340.html)
But as for unborn children and little babies . . .
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"By Salamander Davoudi in London"
Salamander? Do they have rights now??
Published: December 19 2006 22:01 | Last updated: December 19 2006 22:01
The next time you beat your keyboard in frustration, think of a day where it may be able to sue you for assault. Within 50 years we might even find ourselves standing next to the next generation of vacuum cleaners in the voting booth.
Far from being extracts from the extreme end of science fiction, the idea that we may one day give sentient machines the kind of rights traditionally reserved for humans is raised in a British government-commissioned report which claims to be an extensive look into the future.
Visions of the status of robots around 2056 have emerged from one of 270 forward-looking papers sponsored by Sir David King, the UK government’s chief scientist. The paper covering robots’ rights was written by a UK partnership of Outsights, the management consultancy, and Ipsos Mori, the opinion research organisation.FT.com (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/5ae9b434-8f8e-11db-9ba3-0000779e2340.html)
But as for unborn children and little babies . . .
:(
"By Salamander Davoudi in London"
Salamander? Do they have rights now??