Wait, do we already have a social justice movement for robots that have yet to exist? lmao
I studied philosophy and there is already extensive research and theory on what we define as personhood. Some people (myself included) believe that if robots, computers, etc. can achieve sentience then they would qualify as people, and therefore have rights.
Iono about all that.
I feel like, if you can’t die then you aren’t a person.
so if a regular person became immortal…
Robot sentience is a bad idea and we don’t need that kind of tomfoolery in the world
Robot sentience is an amazing idea, and also unavoidable due to the likelihood of emergent intelligence.
Also sapience is hard enough to qualify, or more specifically, hard enough to know to qualify, that it’s safest to treat robots with any kind of adaptive programming as if they are people.
on that note, we should probably stop calling them “robots”
Lol @the anti robot people on this post: Isaac Asimov was arguing for robot social justice before most of our parents were born. And it’s no coincidence that it was a Jewish man who took the then-popular (and still extant) perception of robots as death machines and recast them as creatures with inherent ethics in the very core of their programming, if you want an interesting literary history fact.
I think any kind of hardcore Star Trek fan is already for robot civil rights (as well as civil rights for aliens & sentient computer programs/holograms.)
Star Trek went so far into teaching me what makes a person. I mean, if I could see humanoids with funny head ridges as people, then seeing all humans as people was easy. And then you have non-humanoid organic beings. Then robots. Then holograms/sentient computer programs. And by that point, it’s easy.
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