Poll

Final decision: Give sentient robots rights?

Yay, because...
7 (70%)
Nay, because...
3 (30%)
Abstain
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 10

Author Topic: A Philosophical Question: Should sentient/sapient robots/AI be granted rights?  (Read 5653 times)

there are no sentient robots this is a stupid question

>giving toasters rights

Star Trek TNG - The Measure Of A Man (S2 E9)

"Picard must prove Data is legally a sentient being with rights and freedoms under Federation law when transfer orders demand Data's reassignment for study and disassembly."

if they were made? yes
should they be made? definitely no rofl



why are they saying again? have I done this before?


A sentient robot is no different than a real living being. The brain is just a computer. There's no difference of sentience whether it's born or created.

Robots built by my future private military sure as Hell won't be programmed with Asimov's Laws. Not only would that prevent them from taking part in my operations, but that would be treating them like slaves to Humanity.

sure if theyre sentient
it'd be cruel to enslave them
as long as i can still forget the cute android girls im down with them having rights

Robots built by my future private military sure as Hell won't be programmed with Asimov's Laws. Not only would that prevent them from taking part in my operations, but that would be treating them like slaves to Humanity.
You aren't starting a PMC. Quit being delusional and get back the cash register, there are customers waiting.

You aren't starting a PMC. Quit being delusional and get back the cash register, there are customers waiting.

Oh, you've convinced me, I will continue to live in mediocrity.

Go forget yourself.


Robots built by my future private military sure as Hell won't be programmed with Asimov's Laws. Not only would that prevent them from taking part in my operations, but that would be treating them like slaves to Humanity.

dude where the heck are you gonna get a private military complex from

also you should read where the asimov's law comes from, Isaac Asimov's books are great and it provides better social commentary than this lmfao

dude where the heck are you gonna get a private military complex from

Thanks for asking how it'd theoretically work instead of being a naysayer dipstuff like Satan.

Perhaps I'd start small in some way, I wanna be a gunsmith making some manually-operated carbines, like pump action, bolt action, and maybe even lever action, chambered in P.D.W. cartridges, similar to FN 5.7x28 millimetre. I'd try to submit my designs to a good manufacturer, and when I start making money, I'll put it into eventually making a simple security company, and hopefully build it up from there into a Humanitarian private military of my own. And keeping on topic, I'd want to include Robots in my forces, with various duties both in and out of combat if they want to work for me.

also you should read where the asimov's law comes from, Isaac Asimov's books are great and it provides better social commentary than this lmfao

I know it's based in science fiction. But people are suggesting we actually apply it to real Robots and Ai, and I think it's rather sick and cowardly in some regards. It's like, they think the machines are undoubtedly rise up and kill us all if they don't have the Three Laws. Yeah, they might, if we treat them poorly despite their mental and physical capabilities possibly going above our own, like how the Quarians treated the Geth in Mass Effect. And even though that's also science fiction, it's a rather rare example of intelligent machines being abused and rightfully starting a revolution, rather than the usual Robots-go-crazy-and-kill-everyone-for-no-reason things.