If AI Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?(www.nytimes.com)

BriggyDwiggs42an hour ago
Like if we knew that for sure then… yeah of course? But by the same logic it’s quite likely some of the most intelligent animals also deserve rights, and we sure haven’t done that very well.
1970-01-0110 hours ago
Star Trek says yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_a_Man_(Star_Tre...
- pavel_lishin9 hours ago
  Star Trek has had multiple episodes where the humanity & rights of AI are brought into question - several other episodes with Data, large parts of the EMH's arc on Voyager, the episode with the Exocomps, how Dr. Moriarty's situation was handled, just to name the ones I remember.
  (Fun fact: I was temporarily banned from a subreddit because I kept arguing that the Federation hates & fears AI, because the moderators thought I was trolling. I was glad to have been vindicated by the first season of Picard!)
- ViktorRay10 hours ago
  That is most certainly one of the greatest episodes of the entire Star Trek franchise

   if( really_cool_sounding_poorly_defined_indeterminable_condition )
      print "yes"
   else
      print "no"