Robots could become 'electronic persons' with rights, obligations under draft EU plan

I imagine they will experience a higher degree of liberty than the average Canadian...

Go away

FTFY

If artificial intelligences become sentient and self-aware then it would be irrational to deny them rights or to mindlessly make them into second class citizens.

They don't have the same feelings as regular people anyhow. You can't trust em, they'll show that TRB any minute.

Next thing, they'll start a silicon lives matter movement.

The same can be said of most autistics.

Somebody's been reading too much Asimov.

Sometime in the future, you could probably be able to program computers/robots to seem sentient and self-aware, "seem" being the operative word here.

The same can be said of most autistics.

You might say that as a joke, but it's a very accurate example. The emotional range of a sentient piece of machinery would likely be very similar to that of a person with autism. With that, there is a good chance that people with autism would have an easier time interacting with sentient machines than the average individual would. Taking it a step further, I would be willing to wager an autistic individual would be more comfortable interacting with a sentient machine than they would with a normal person.

Raydan - like it or not, we humans are computers as well. We aren't silicon based, but organic computers. Rather than relying soley on electrical interactions for computation, we also include a chemical process. Otherwise, we are simply machines with a limited set of pre-programmed instructions, including the instruction to learn. Machines can be given a similar base instruction set, whereby they are allowed to write and modify their own programming, thus learning.

So, if our electrical-chemical process can produce sentience, why can't a strictly electrical process do the same thing?

I wasn't saying that as a joke.

Oh. Well I guess we're on the same page then.

Seconded.

As long as they are more like Data and not like Ash.