If a robot is conscious, is it OK to turn it off? The moral implications of building true AIs

In the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Measure of a Man," Data, an android crew member of the Enterprise, is to be dismantled for research purposes unless Captain Picard can argue that Data deserves the same rights as a human being. Naturally the question arises: What is the basis upon which something has rights? What gives an entity moral standing?

from News on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning https://ift.tt/37MZccy

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