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Robot Rights, With Kill Switches, Proposed

  • RT, Thursday, January 12, 2017 10:29 AM
A European Parliament committee has voted in favor of a draft report that proposes granting legal status to robots, categorizing them as “electronic persons”. The draft report, approved by 17 votes to two and two abstentions by the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs, proposes that “The most sophisticated autonomous robots could be established as having the status of electronic persons with specific rights and obligations, including that of making good any damage they may cause.”

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  1. Brent Walker from Soundscapes, January 12, 2017 at 10:49 a.m.

    Asimov got this right decades ago, and it should serve as the basis for advanced robotics:



    robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.


  2. Paula Lynn from Who Else Unlimited, January 12, 2017 at 11:56 a.m.

    And in case you are on the precipice, you can appeal to its inner self depending how it programmed itself.

  3. R MARK REASBECK from www.USAonly.US replied, January 12, 2017 at 12:21 p.m.

    I'm looking for a wife with these qualifications

  4. R MARK REASBECK from www.USAonly.US , January 12, 2017 at 12:32 p.m.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL6RRIOZyCM

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