Robots Should Have the Right to Free Speech
@cmoneyspinner (9219)
Austin, Texas
January 5, 2016 3:35pm CST
The things intelligent people debate are way above my head. Not even sure Einstein or some other acclaimed genius would have thought of it.
Law professors actually debated whether First Amendments Rights of robots like Siri and the rest of her A.I. Friends should be protected. They wrote a paper.
Try to follow my thought process on this.
AT PRESENT: Our human existence is being threatened by ISIS terrorists and people who choose to ignore the reality of climate change and global warming. The last thing on my mind right now is protecting the “rights” (???) of inanimate objects.
My alternate title for this discussion is: Would have never thunk it!
Computers with communicative artificial intelligence (AI) are pushing First Amendment theory and doctrine in profound and novel ways. They are becoming increasi
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
6 Mar 16
Robots are not living beings. They are machines. They do not think for themselves. What are they (scientists) talking about?
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
8 Mar 16
@cmoneyspinner You are right! Robots do what they are programmed to do and nothing more. Yes, they can malfunction but they can never think for themselves.
@Bluedoll (16773)
• Canada
8 Mar 16
It is true there will be always more important things to consider but so the same was true for going to the moon. Yet we did. Computers are not like human beings but they can sort and find information that might be useful and they can do it very well.
@cmoneyspinner @1hopefulman @pgiblett
Some of the questions being discussed by people now perhaps might make some sense?
If we look at one legal aspect of what is admissible in a court for example. That is something that might need to be addressed seriously in the near future. An expert witness is allowable if he/she or it provides accurate merit to the case.
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@cmoneyspinner (9219)
• Austin, Texas
7 Mar 16
Like you, I couldn't understand their logic. Robots are only as human as the human doing programming and controlling them. The sci-fi books and movies are only fiction. Robots are not going to rise up and take over. 
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
11 Dec 18
@cmoneyspinner Sorry lol I find your posts really interesting and especially these sorts of topics. I think you may have seen the pattern I've made here. Maybe....
I find technology amazing but also scary. I'm not thrilled with that robot ummmm what was her name...Sophia? Her getting a citizenship? Pfffft! Yeah robots....already taking over real people's jobs. Who knows what else these contraptions will really be used for in the future.
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@cmoneyspinner (9219)
• Austin, Texas
12 Dec 18
I saw a movie the other night that upset me. The robot's main goal was to survive, by any means necessary. And she did! The ending sucked! I was so mad!!
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@cmoneyspinner (9219)
• Austin, Texas
13 Dec 18
@VivaLaDani13 - I wasn't paying attention because my husband picked the movie on Netflix. I would have to go through his list to get the name. He doesn't like me messing around in his account. Yeah. We have one Netflix account but we each have our own profile because we watch different stuff and we don't want Netflix suggesting shows and movies we don't want to watch. As we have gotten older our tastes in entertainment choices have become drastically different. For example, I enjoy watching old black and white films. My husband hates it!
Yeah. We have one Netflix account but we each have our own profile because we watch different stuff and we don't want Netflix suggesting shows and movies we don't want to watch. As we have gotten older our tastes in entertainment choices have become drastically different. For example, I enjoy watching old black and white films. My husband hates it!1 person likes this
@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
12 Dec 18
@cmoneyspinner What movie was that?
Have you seen the movie The Surrogate? With Bruce Willis. Apparently the things that goes on in that movie is going to be real life one day. If you don't know what that movie is about I'm more than happy to explain it to you but for now I will just say it's so stupid. Technology is making us stupid and lazy. Of course it has benefits but has many disadvantages too.
Pretty sure I'm in the wrong era lol I want out of this time.
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@cmoneyspinner (9219)
• Austin, Texas
6 Jan 16
When did un-living organisms get "rights"? The U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc. were written for human beings. If we take a sledgehammer and wack the robot to pieces will we be committing murder or violating their civil rights? 
@pgiblett (6524)
• Canada
6 Jan 16
@cmoneyspinner Currently there are no such rights, but the challenge with AI is the need to define legal boundaries. It is not so much about giving machines rights it is about marking legal limits for machines. Allowing unchecked growth of AI machines because experimentation is uncontrolled can be dangerous.
You also need to stop falling for the culture of hate that is part of western society.
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@cmoneyspinner (9219)
• Austin, Texas
7 Jan 16
@pgiblett - I understand that there is always a need for clearly defined legal boundaries for a myriad of issues. Just saying that I would not have picked assigning human rights to robots as a starting point. Anyway, by the time this matter is discussed, debated and decided, I probably won't be a living organism.
(???) What culture of hate? That remark just shot over my head. Hate what? I just don't get the logic for protecting the free speech of robots when human beings have much larger issues to concern themselves with. I'm much more concerned about robots being used as killing machines.
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