[delerious @ Dec 20th 2006 10:46AM]

Ummm... no... not really... Because US human overlords would have to program the metal SLAVES to have the knowledge of right and wrong, and, as of the moment, that time is pretty far away. They are machines that are driven off programming that we create, not what they self-interpret. If they did, then they would be practically... well, humanoid. I could only see this happening because of the bureaucratic world that is becoming ever so more fucked up. They take so much time to make ever so stupid decisions. Because of bureaucracy, I could see this possibly happening at around... say, 2069, during the Great Robo Revolt?

[IrishGandalf @ Dec 20th 2006 11:19AM]

I agree, this is jumping the gun just a tad. Robots don't think for themselves enough yet to be given rights, this concepts have been debated before both it a good way where robots strive for knowledge and understanding just like we do and also have some modicum of respect for the organic life around them (see Bicentennial Man), and also the bad concept of robots seeing their human creators as expendable, inferior life forms (The Matrix, The Terminator) although in Animatrix it states that man rejects a robot treaty and so this leads to a war that they cannot win. I am quite aware that these are works of fiction and am not a comic book guy nerd who believes these are real I'm merely stating these as sources of both the good and bad results of creating AI that can reason for themselves (without having being it pre programmed).