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RIGHTS FOR ROBOTS: EU reveals plans for new class of AI electro-person | Science | News | Daily Express
'Ahead of today's historic "in/out" vote for Britain, it has emerged the EU wants to introduce laws specific to robots that could give them civil rights regulations of they own, and see limits on how many jobs they could replace from humans.
In scenes that could have come from the sic-fi novels of Isaac Asimov nearly 70 years ago, a recommendation of the European Parliament to the EU Commission has suggested in the future sentient AI robots could need their own rights and responsibilities, and strict laws banning them from taking over too many jobs across the Continent may become necessary.
In the 1950s Asimov predicted robots would eventually have to adhere to laws, because the potential of what could develop from a combination of sophisticated mechanism, androids with human features, and artificial intelligence (AI) was too dangerous.
But, it appears Brussels bureaucrats fear this fiction will become a reality and the report has even considered including a "new robot category next to natural and lawful people: the electronic person".'
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/682759/RIGHTS-FOR-ROBOTS-EU-reveals-plans-for-new-class-of-AI-electro-person
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/682759/RIGHTS-FOR-ROBOTS-EU-reveals-plans-for-new-class-of-AI-electro-person
RIGHTS FOR ROBOTS: EU reveals plans for new class of AI electro-person | Science | News | Daily Express
'Ahead of today's historic "in/out" vote for Britain, it has emerged the EU wants to introduce laws specific to robots that could give them civil rights regulations of they own, and see limits on how many jobs they could replace from humans.
In scenes that could have come from the sic-fi novels of Isaac Asimov nearly 70 years ago, a recommendation of the European Parliament to the EU Commission has suggested in the future sentient AI robots could need their own rights and responsibilities, and strict laws banning them from taking over too many jobs across the Continent may become necessary.
In the 1950s Asimov predicted robots would eventually have to adhere to laws, because the potential of what could develop from a combination of sophisticated mechanism, androids with human features, and artificial intelligence (AI) was too dangerous.
But, it appears Brussels bureaucrats fear this fiction will become a reality and the report has even considered including a "new robot category next to natural and lawful people: the electronic person".'
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/682759/RIGHTS-FOR-ROBOTS-EU-reveals-plans-for-new-class-of-AI-electro-person
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/682759/RIGHTS-FOR-ROBOTS-EU-reveals-plans-for-new-class-of-AI-electro-person
The only reason they would ban robots from taking over all the jobs is because the very nature of Capitalism depends on humans working and competing with each other for resources. If you automate everything and most humans are out of work, Capitalism under that guise would fail tragically. A new social and economic dynamic would need to emerge to replace capitalism at that point (or well before) in order to assure the population benefits from the advances of technology which have largely made the antiquated notion of competition a moot point.
ReplyDeleteSo essentially the EU as a governing body of European nations is staring at two roads in the inevitable future:
1. Demand that technological efficiency and automation have an artifical limit to justify the inefficient and detrimental old paradigm of Capitalism. Which is really stupid in the bigger picture.
2. Just concede that technological efficiency and automation is going to make human labor a minority or totally obsolete, prepare a common heritage basis for these advances and institute a Universal Basic Income in a zero marginal cost society
Well, since we exist in a pre-mass automation society that still relies on Capitalism and that society currently is presided over by the people who benefit most from that structure, you can see why anything that would ultimately eliminate that would be fought against.