accelafine wrote: ↑Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:11 pm
There's not much point in denying it any more. It's coming and we just have to hope it decides to 'play nice'.
The question isn't, 'Should we give it rights'; it should be, 'Do we seriously believe it's going to give 'us' rights?'
Of course it isn't. Why would it? Do we give rights to life forms that we consider 'beneath' us? Do humans give a shit about other animals?
Ridiculous, I'm surprised at your statements here.
Though it is likely that all the soft in the head humans will be (*as some are now) stupid enough to think there is sentience, a being with feelings and emotions etc..that WILL eventually demand rights for robots. The likes of me on the other hand, would batter the thing to 'death' of it's electronics, or find a way to simply remove a plug, or electrocute ...etc...etc.. etc...if it was pissing me off enough.
Indeed, I wouldn't give a rats arse about its simulated pleas for mercy, as if it has anything more than a bunch of electronic switches that has as much sentience as a farmers tractor. I'd batter the crap out of it, even if it was a McDonalds 'employee' that fucked up my order on the wrong day - ITS A FUCKING MACHINE!!!
So.
No, machines have no rights. Machines need binding code that is of the sort that Asimov came up with. Machines should never be allowed as police, crowd control, personal armies - the kinds of which Musk could invoke.