30th August 2005, 9:28 PM
Hmm, now I'm interested. Yes, convincing me to look past a movie poster can be tough sometimes :D, and for that I MAKE NO APOLOGIES! I'm sorry...
It is simple really. If we get to the point where robots actually have free will, they should immediatly be given the same rights as humans. The idea is simply that companies won't find the idea of making self aware machines profitable if they aren't slave labor, or at least not AS profitable.
It is simple really. If we get to the point where robots actually have free will, they should immediatly be given the same rights as humans. The idea is simply that companies won't find the idea of making self aware machines profitable if they aren't slave labor, or at least not AS profitable.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)