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    I believe they should be given rights, but not the same rights we have (and that's not to say I think they deserve less, if such an AI existed) An AI will not have the same limitations or issues humans have, so placing human rights on an AI would simply not suit the form of life that's been created. It's a totally unique form of life and it needs its own unique set of rights.

    It will naturally have to share many of the rigts we have currently, but some would have to be created to suit an AIs life more specifically or else they're open to possible gray areas where things don't quite fit.
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    IF we ever develop an AI that exists in a mechanical body and is on par with humans in terms of sentience, we cannot treat them as lesser beings, if we don't want to ever give mechanical beings the same rights as we have, we will do well not to create life in any way but the usual way.

    Personally I would welcome the idea of an AI. And to the people heralding the robot apocalypse, watch those movies again, and look at the robot motives, it's people like you that subjugated them in the first place, even after being aware of creating an AI that caused said apocalypse.

    If humans ever create an AI, and treat it right, there's no reason for them to try to destroy organics.
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    If they don't have rights, neither should we, since we are also sophisticated molecular machines that developed sentience. What really makes us different from machines when you get down to the scale of molecules?

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    Quote Originally Posted by kazih View Post
    Whats so great about humans?
    Well humans would have built those machines in the first place. Also many humans have accomplished so many great things.

    However it's hard to say how great we are when we can't compare ourselves to anything.

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    And that changes things... how?
    You are asking me why we should not be actively killing humans who are useless? In most countries killing another human being is illegal

    edit: Also any government killing it's own citizens or allowing it to happen would be condemned.

    These machines would have created by us to be used as tools for us, them being self aware would be a potential threat.

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    If in the future we have to make sentient AI's there would be certain laws made regarding the situation. Might be you're just never allowed to make enough human-like things that they would need same set of rights as humans. There's just no *poof* heres a robot that thinks and feels like a human and we need to give it rights asap. It's a slow progress and society will see how it'll go about it.

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    if we truely have no soul and our brains are just computers than yes they get rights too
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    if we truely have no soul and our brains are just computers than yes they get rights too
    Why do people even bring up mention of "soul"?

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    I find it funny that people think so highly about our brain (it is a masterpiece yes, but not something you can't recreate or surpass). People like to call it 'being human' or having a 'soul'. You do know that self awareness, emotions, conciousness and all those things are results of electric impulses and signals in our brains yes? In the future, when computers will have more calculation powers etc it is possible to surpass the capabilities of an entire brain (given the knowledge of the entire brain structure and that kind of stuff). If they would place your brain into a robot, attach all the neural connections etc to the whole body then you will still be yourself but in a different body. Of course this is still sci fi, because we do not have the technology yet.

    Our brain is nothing more but an organic super computer. And once computers are capable enough, we can actually simulate our brains once we know all the connections that are present.

    Regarding the OP's question, I would only answer it with a yes once the AI reaches the same level as our own brain. Because then we are basically equally intelligent and self aware, and therefore deserve to be treated equally but once you have AI at such high level. Well, it would be the same as just shooting a human because the emotional impact and that kind of stuff are the same.
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    Quote Originally Posted by alms1407 View Post
    These machines would have created by us to be used as tools for us, them being self aware would be a potential threat.
    Anything could be a potential threat, depending on how you look at it.

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    Hell no, if it's sentient enough to ask for rights it needs to be killed with fire.

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    It is impossible for AI's to be completely like humans no matter how technologically advanced we become. So no they do not deserve rights.

    How do I know AI will never be like humans? Go see Kurt Godels incompleteness theorem it proves human brains and AI are different at a fundamental level.

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    Fully sentient? Equal rights.

    What counts as full sentient? Now... that's a much harder question.

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    Yes all intelligent beings deserve equal rights.

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    You probably start with programs that can learn things without a human coding it and it being able to create something new, like art or something.

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    When an AI becomes fully self-aware, the only differences between it and a human are their anatomy and creation process, no? Take the androids in Blade Runner, for example. They were created by humans, and are as such completely artificial, including their minds, but they are fully sentient, with their own thoughts, emotions and desires. What reason could there possibly be for them not having the rights as humans, if everything else about them is?
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    I'd prefer if we were to give AI higher than human rights, because they would most likely do something useful to this planet. Since most of the human race past 2000 years utterly failed at it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Herecius View Post
    Fully sentient? Equal rights.

    What counts as full sentient? Now... that's a much harder question.
    ^ This. My answer would depend on how you are defining fully sentient. If that means that for all intents and purposes if they were exactly like humans, but just in a different body, then my answer would be yes. Also at what point are we designating the threshold of sentience?

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    No. It's not "artificial" at that point. It's just weird reproduction.

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    No, there would be a separate category of AI rights. In the same way we have animal rights instead of an extension of human rights to include animals.

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    Quote Originally Posted by orissa View Post
    And that kinda leads to a thread I posted about a month ago about the "reconstructing and reviving" of the dead and whether they'd be the same person or even truly considered "alive."

    If there is no soul, are we not just organic machines? And if so, does that really make us drastically different from intelligent forms made of metal and plastic? This then leads to the question of what "life" truly is.
    Indeed that's where my thought lies too, the more I learn of robotics and AI the more I feel that we are strikingly similar to a complex machine, we were just made from different components, whether made by a being, or by evolution and universal events, we're the collection of matter into a certain structure. I think the brain is complex is enough to give us our perceived "soul" in the same way a computer chip can program something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nelfie View Post
    I'd prefer if we were to give AI higher than human rights, because they would most likely do something useful to this planet. Since most of the human race past 2000 years utterly failed at it.
    That T-rex sure did a lot for good ole earth. The earth doesn't give a shit about us, we can nuke it to oblivion and in a few million years the system will reset, and the only reason we give a shit about it is we need it to live. The only difference between us and most animal species is the scale to which we can fuck things up. But in the long run it wont make much of a difference, the system will self correct. And whose to say that the AI would be any better in that regard? They'd could easily have little to zero concern for any organic life needing only non-organic materials to live and the Earth could become a barren wasteland devoid of any life for all they give a crap. I can see it now, grand canyon destroyed by AI strip mines.
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