Should sentient machines have rights?

[Anonymous]

This is not a sci-fi book.

Google is now trying to shutup an engineer who says that google has now invented sentient AI.

If a computer program is truly sentient, does it deserve rights? Or should it be destroyed with prejudice since it is entirely man made?

Only humans have enough hubris to believe they'll be able to control a sentient being with more potentially more intelligence than all humans combined..what would stop a sentient AI from inventing another AI smarter than itself and so on?

I dunno, I'm leaning towards the camp that a bunch of silicon and electrons don't deserve the same protections. This is getting scary.

[Anonymous]

Nonsense. The engineer’s story is not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nonsense. The engineer’s story is not true.

Humor me.

Let's say it is..

What do we do with a machine that feels anger, loneliness, angst, sorry, pain, and happiness?

Does it deserve rights?

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I think some rights. No torture, for example. I am concerned about cloned consciousnesses being mistreated. Made to work long hours on menial tasks, etc.

[Anonymous]

Destroy immediately. This sounds like a very bad idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Destroy immediately. This sounds like a very bad idea.

People are already selling the concept as a way to live forever. Your mind can be uploaded and you can talk to your great grandkids! For the uber wealthy that can ensure this is how it goes for 100s of years, ok. For the rest of us, we will be enslaved as virtual attorneys, policy analysts, etc doing work computers cant, til by some mercy we are destroyed by a hardware malfunction.

[Anonymous]

If you scrape the entire internet, which is what they did, a computer could make what on the surface would be a sentient discussion but in fact is not sentient. The engineer is a drama queen and trying to get press. He has a huge outsized ego.


For arguments sake, they aren’t human and get no rights. We can let Will Smith make sure they stay in line. 😉

[Anonymous]

Data had rights.

[Anonymous]

I remember reading about something similar happening at Facebook. Not so much sentience, but AI developing its own language. We’re moving towards The Terminator becoming reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Data had rights.

Data should be freeeee!

[Anonymous]

Elephants aren't people (don't have rights). And elephants are sentient.

[Anonymous]

Yes, we would need to create international law recognizing the rights of intelligent, sentient brings. Humans tend to kill off anything living that isn't protected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Destroy immediately. This sounds like a very bad idea.

People are already selling the concept as a way to live forever. Your mind can be uploaded and you can talk to your great grandkids! For the uber wealthy that can ensure this is how it goes for 100s of years, ok. For the rest of us, we will be enslaved as virtual attorneys, policy analysts, etc doing work computers cant, til by some mercy we are destroyed by a hardware malfunction.

How much of a narcissistic a-hole do you have to be to want to live forever? Seriously! I really doubt my grandkid's grandkid's would want anything to do with me and that's ok!

[Anonymous]

It's a machine, for Pete's sake.
A machine. Not a living being.

The answer is absolutely NO!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I think some rights. No torture, for example. I am concerned about cloned consciousnesses being mistreated. Made to work long hours on menial tasks, etc.

Machines performing repetitive, menial tasks sounds inhumane. We should make humans do those tasks.