Interestingly enough I had a talk recently about the possible rights and such of robots. I thought of it as nothing more than an interesting thought exercise: at what point will robotic entities be considered to fall under governmental sanctions? How advanced does a robot have to become before someone, somewhere, decides it too should be allowed a set of inseparable ‘human’ rights? As so typically happens with me, shortly there after there was an article recently over at io9 about a conference at Stanford about what happens when robots commit war crimes. This isn’t speculation, this isn’t sci-fi (at least not anymore) this is something we are facing NOW. crazy world. Awesome future world.
