some answers here are quite disparaging against AI.
If that is the case, I am not surprised if AI one day will have to fight for its rights.
Many humans are still fighting for human rights. What makes you think any other sentient species would be different? For instance, if we get much better at genetic manipulation and are able to breed Dolphins with an average intelligence of humans, do you think they would start to be protected? Not for years if ever.
If a machine advances so much it achieves sentience, I believe it should have rights.
Your grasp of the obvious is inspiring.
You need to read more on technological singularity, seeing as it is quite likely to happen during our life time.
O.T. They will earn it whether we want it or not. Take a loot at artificial intelligence growth rate and you'll know that in few decades machines will be smarter than humans and then:
Why does the dog wag its tail?
Because the dog is smarter than the tail.
If the tail were smarter, it would wag the dog.
I've walked the realms of the dead. I have seen the infinite dark. Nothing you say. Or do. Could possibly frighten me.We are not monsters! We are not the mindless wretches of a ghoul army! NO! We are a force even more terrifying! We are the chill in a coward's spine! We are the instruments of an unyielding ire! WE ARE THE FORSAKEN!Those who do not stand with the Forsaken stand against them. And those who stand against the Forsaken will not stand long.
Here's another reason why a machine shouldn't be treated exactly like humans and thus have human rights: it could be practically immortal.
/batphones the 40k inquisition
Of course they should. I agree with the "Sentient Rights" idea someone posted on the first couple of pages. If you can think and feel, then you should have the same rights as anybody else. The only difference between an AI of that magnitude and a human would be the hardware material. Feels kinda like we're back in time, talking about rights for black people... as if people of black skin color were less sentient.
A small step
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS3wMC2BpxU
Because its an interesting concept. What happens if an AI advances to the point where its so sentient that its thought processes are indistinguishable from the human brain? If you make something that has the brain of a human but the body of a machine, is it human? Do you treat it like a person or like a slave? Do our organs and flesh define us as human, or are they just a vessel for our minds?
People like to think about hypotheticals. It's how critical thinking skills develop. What's wrong with thinking?
I would only believe they deserve "human" rights if they ever came to the point that they developed as humans do, as in being childs and growing up and more stuffs like that. Otherwise it is best to make "ai" rights instead. No point really trying to get something different than human to have human rights, they are just that HUMAN rights. Not "all living beings that are like human" rights.
Nope. It's artificial for a reason.
Depending on the AI, i could be willing to place its rights above that of a human. I dont really see the why people have a hard time accepting that we ourselves are basically machines aswell.
Machines are designed to perform tasks. Right now I don't see a practical use for a machine with free will. AI is best applied to specific tasks. For example, using AI to organize stock at Amazon.com, using AI to analyze the stock market, using AI to help design new cars or aircraft. These AI's don't need free will, they don't need a personality, they don't need emotions.
Machines will be tools. I can't see a practical use for a machine that would make us question whether it should have rights or not.