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Should Androids Have the Right to Have Children?

posted by janrinok on Saturday August 01 2015, @06:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the who-is-the-father?-test-the-oil dept.

AnonTechie writes:

In contemporary science fiction, we often see robots passing themselves off as humans. According to a [University of Stavanger] researcher, the genre problematises what it takes to be accepted as a human being and provides a useful contribution to the debate about who should have the right to reproduce.

Science fiction culture has prospered and gone from being for nerds only in the 1970s and 1980s to becoming part of popular culture in the last two decades. This particularly applies to the TV series genre, which has become mainstream with Battlestar Galactica (2004), Heroes (2006) and Fringe (2008).

"The genre has evolved from depicting technology as a threat, to dealing with more intimate relations between humans and machines", says Ingvil Hellstrand. In her doctoral thesis, she points out that science fiction today is often about humanoid androids that are trying to become "one of us". According to Hellstrand, this is not incidental.

What is SN take on this issue??

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2015, @07:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2015, @07:07AM (#216684)

    For every human they help to not procreate.

    Over time the android populace will grow as the human populace fades. All the human associate problems will fall to the wayside as android slowly and inevitably displace the humans upon the Earth.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday August 01 2015, @07:34AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday August 01 2015, @07:34AM (#216695) Homepage

    Even Data couldn't get it right [wikia.com] and created a being who was doomed to death through the assembly language equivalent of a fatal genetic disorder.

    Humans suffer enough, best to not force machines to suffer along with them.
     

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday August 01 2015, @11:00PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 01 2015, @11:00PM (#216876) Journal

    Over time the android populace will grow as the human populace fades. All the human associate problems will fall to the wayside as android slowly and inevitably displace the humans upon the Earth.

    And why exactly, would anyone, human or robot want that? Seems better to just improve humanity since it's already here.