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December 20, 2006
Human Rights to Be Extended to Machines
Long-suffering British taxpayers have now financed a report suggesting that human rights should be extended to machines.
According to Henrik Christensen, director of the Centre of Robotics and Intelligent Machines at the Georgia Institute of Technology:
Would it be acceptable to kick a robotic dog even though we shouldn't kick a normal one? There will be people who can't distinguish that so we need to have ethical rules to make sure we as humans interact with robots in an ethical manner so we do not move our boundaries of what is acceptable.
In return for their rights, machines might be asked to vote, serve in the military, and pay taxes to finance moronic government reports.
According the report, human rights will even include nanny state entitlements:
If granted full rights, states will be obligated to provide full social benefits to them including income support, housing and possibly robo-healthcare to fix the machines over time.
Liberals will be pleased to learn that we will soon be able to abort all babies and still reproduce a constituency of government-dependent, Democratic-voting whiners.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 20, 2006 7:29 AM
Comments
This is just exactly how the Cylons got started.
Posted by: V the K at December 20, 2006 7:39 AM
V, I love ya more than my luggage, but you are a complete UberGeek! LOL
Posted by: HollywoodNeoCon at December 20, 2006 7:57 AM
Dude, I don't even watch BSG. But I've written over 6,000 captions in the last two years, and ya can't do it without encyclopedic knowledge of Pop Culture.
Posted by: V the K at December 20, 2006 8:06 AM
Can I claim my computer as a depenent? I could use the tax deduction.
Posted by: Pam at December 20, 2006 8:57 AM
But remember, a fetus is just a tissue mass, a mass of undeveloped cells.
Posted by: Steve at December 20, 2006 10:30 AM
What about SKYNET?
It wont letter anyone vote! It will nuke us all then hunt us down with killer cyborgs and machines built in automated factories!
Its no accident one of THEM is governor of California!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Terminator.jpg
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at December 20, 2006 12:34 PM
yeah, well i'm going to threaten to replace mine with an old mag-card machine if it even thinks about trying to rat me out! why, i'll even go back to pen, paper and pony express if i have to...
Posted by: nanc at December 20, 2006 1:23 PM
Why would we create self conscious robots? Why!? What is the use at all?
Posted by: Eric at December 20, 2006 3:38 PM
Why would we create self conscious robots?
So they can vote democrat?
Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 20, 2006 11:05 PM
Why would we create self conscious robots?
So even the ugliest geek could get a date? Think of the possibilites! They are probably still less expensive than those mail order brides from Russia.
Posted by: phil at December 21, 2006 7:16 AM
