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01-13-2017, 06:07 AM
Europe is prepping for a world where robots need rights
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With every new in**vation in the artificial intelligence space, it becomes even more tempting to imagine a near future filled with huma**id robots ready and willing to accomplish any task. After all, that's what we've been promised by sci-fi ****** and books for years.
But once our future artificially intelligent robot overlords assistants are in*****ed in society and inevitably tangled up in the stickier aspects of the human experience, what legal rights are they due, if any?
It's a central question at speculative panels (http://mashable.com/2012/03/19/robots-kill-we-robot-conference/) for futurists — but a proposal approved by the European Parliament's Legal Affairs committee today will actually bring the debate to legislative bodies, according to CNN (http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/tech**logy/robot-law-killer-switch-taxes/). * Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/12/europe-robot-laws/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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With every new in**vation in the artificial intelligence space, it becomes even more tempting to imagine a near future filled with huma**id robots ready and willing to accomplish any task. After all, that's what we've been promised by sci-fi ****** and books for years.
But once our future artificially intelligent robot overlords assistants are in*****ed in society and inevitably tangled up in the stickier aspects of the human experience, what legal rights are they due, if any?
It's a central question at speculative panels (http://mashable.com/2012/03/19/robots-kill-we-robot-conference/) for futurists — but a proposal approved by the European Parliament's Legal Affairs committee today will actually bring the debate to legislative bodies, according to CNN (http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/tech**logy/robot-law-killer-switch-taxes/). * Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/12/europe-robot-laws/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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