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Finally, a real "Digital Liberty" story for the mechanical among us. The EU has released a report mulling topics such as "electronic personhood" status for robots, and kill switches:
The European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs has proposed a legal framework for robots that clarifies whether they should have the legal status of people, even as it recommends the inclusion of kill switches in automated systems. "A growing number of areas of our daily lives are increasingly affected by robotics," said rapporteur Mady Delvaux in a statement. "In order to address this reality and to ensure that robots are and will remain in the service of humans, we urgently need to create a robust European legal framework."
The committee's draft report, due to be considered by the full EU Parliament in February, says that robot sales were increasing about 17 per cent annually between 2010 and 2014, then in 2014 the rate jumped to 29 per cent, driven by automotive parts suppliers and the electronics industry. It also notes that robot-oriented patent filings have tripled over the last decade.
[...] The committee is calling for an EU agency to oversee robotics and artificial intelligence and for the adoption of a voluntary ethical code governing who will be accountable for the social, health, and environmental impact of robots. It wants to ensure that robots operate according to established legal, ethical, and safety standards. The committee also hopes robot designers will take responsibility for the actions of their creations. "Robotics engineers should remain accountable for the social, environmental and human health impacts that robotics may impose on present and future generations," the report says.
The Prometheans are coming, and they don't care about anything's personhood.
Also at BBC and The Guardian.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday January 16 2017, @10:16AM
To tell stories.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @10:34AM
To tell stories.
This is why we need movies about robots, like that old one, "Metropolis", and the one with Johnny Five, and Millenium Man, and Speilberg's kid robot one, and "I, Robot", and some kind of "Alien" movie, and "Real Steel", and, and, and. But!! Replicants are not robots. Replicant lives matter!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @12:17PM
But they do have a kill switch knotted inside.
Fucking is divine (if I remember the feeling well), so the results of the creation by this means need to be protected. Because, you know, the authoritarians "believe little children are special."
On the other side, replicants are engineered rather than created by fucking one out of their mind. Surely, the 'superior' neural activity involved in engineering gives the creator some additional rights over their creation, right? I mean, look, intelligence is human... clearly not divine by its nature (by this measure, God has to be a complete idiot, otherwise it would display human traits. Mmm... looking at them authoritarians as one of the god's creation, perhaps this much is true?)
(grin)
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Monday January 16 2017, @03:36PM
If you like Roy's speech you might like this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM54jXndyvQ [youtube.com]
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday January 16 2017, @04:31PM
Thanks for it (to be sincere, I didn't resonate with it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford