What are Human Rights?
Jun 27, 2010According to the Declaration of Independence, the basic human rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are God-given.
Saudi Arabia, a country not known for progressive women's rights, recently granted the female robotSophiacitizenship. The company behind Sophia has capitalized on this opportunity, as Sophia has become an advocate for women's rights.
As Sophia doesn't have any "rights" herself, does it make sense for her to be advocating for the rights of others? At a more basic and perhaps pressing level, with the increase in robots and AI around us, should we consider granting robots rights? Some argue that this ought to be an open question, to be revisited with real sentience in robots. Others argue that robots don't have free will, simply doing what they've been designed to do by human programmers, and thus don't need rights or citizenship.
Read more here:https://futurism.com/saudi-arabia-made-robot-citizen-calling-womens-rights/
According to the Declaration of Independence, the basic human rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are God-given.
We shouldn't be mean to animals. Is that because animals have rights, like people do? Or is it just because people care about animals?
Smart TVs, refrigerators, cars, and entire houses—the internet of things refers to the networking of all the devices in our lives, as t...
According to the Declaration of Independence, the basic human rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are God-given.
We shouldn't be mean to animals. Is that because animals have rights, like people do? Or is it just because people care about animals?
Smart TVs, refrigerators, cars, and entire houses—the internet of things refers to the networking of all the devices in our lives, as t...
Comments(1)
Harold G. Neuman
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 -- 12:01 PM
Well, perhaps we ought to do也许我们也应该为达尔文的机器做些什么?杰拉德·埃德尔曼(1929-2014)会感到骄傲的!(如果你有兴趣,可以读读埃德尔曼的《第二本性》——相当不错的书。)