UK report predicts rights for robots; your AIBO wants a tax break

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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).

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