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• MEPs passed a resolution in 2017 urging Brussels to take action on robot ethics
• It included the suggestion that robots be given legal status as electronic persons
• It could lead to robot rights and absolve their creators of legal responsibility
• A group of 156 AI specialists has written an open letter denouncing the idea
• They claim it is based on a lack of understanding of the capabilities of robots
Robots as persons in itself sounds stupid.:: insert boilerplate about near-identical legal fiction involving corporations-as-persons ::
Over 150 experts in AI, robotics, commerce, law, and ethics from 14 countries have signed an open letter denouncing the European Parliament’s proposal to grant personhood status to intelligent machines. The EU says the measure will make it easier to figure out who’s liable when robots screw up or go rogue, but critics say it’s too early to consider robots as persons—and that the law will let manufacturers off the liability hook.[gizmodo.com...]
Does that imply at some point in the future, it will be appropriate to consider robots as people?
who is liable if the intelligent machines cause any damage.
