The ethical dilemmas of robotics
March 10, 2007
Here is a link to recent artical on the bbc.co.uk/news site about robot rights!
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Stephen Moorhouse | March 17, 2007 at 1:54 am
Humans consider animals to have less rights because they have less intelligence. When something potentially has the ability to obtain more intelligence than a human, a different set of arguments are called for. The idea of humanity, to me, is unimportant. The statistic of birth that identifies us as human is irrelevent, as much so as the statistics of skin colour, nationality etc – they are all irrelevent. What matters is the potential, the productivity, the achievements of the beings in question.
If we can create machinery with higher intelligence than ourselves, or augment brains with technology for the purpose of melding a higher intelligence, should these creations not have more rights than us? I believe so. If they decide that humans should live or die by those decisions, then lesser intelligence has no reason, surely, to disagree with them, based on the logic we treat lesser existence with.