UK Government Study: Freedom for Robots? from PhysOrg.com
(AP) — Robots might one day be smart enough to demand emancipation from their human owners, raising the prospects they’ll have to be treated as citizens, according to a speculative paper released by the British government. [...]
However, it warned that robots could sue for their rights if these were denied to them.
I find that particularly scary. I can find so many scary scenarios for that. If a human can sue Mc Donalds for being fat. Imagine what a robot could think of…
Yay, robots with rights. Here we come.
Ready. Set. Go.
In terms of the formatting, you're allowed to use markdown, textile, or basic html; it's truly up to you -- what strikes your fancy?
You don't have to worry about your e-mail address being sold to a russian-spam-mafia. I'm only going to use it for my own weird needs; like asking you out for a date on a lonely night of coding.