Under a radical new European Union plan, robots may be
granted the right to “own” possessions. These machines may also be “freed” from
their human masters as many EU officials want them declared “electronic
persons.” Officials apparently believe their plan could dissuade robots from
some day challenging humanity for control of the Earth. These bureaucrats are
so afraid of potential “robot rights” wrath that they are already caving in to
the possible future demands of non-humans!
And you
wonder why the Brits left the EU? In the topsy-turvy world to come, the robots may
well end up owning us.
Under
this “plan,” robots could claim copyright on their work and trade money,
essentially affording them the ability to form functioning societies. Officials
are so concerned that robots will take jobs away from citizens that member
states are being pressed to grant all citizens a universal basic income (UBI)
to aid those whose livelihoods might be taken from them by artificial
intelligence.
According
to the Mirror.co.uk, the draft motion called on the European Commission to
consider “that at least the most sophisticated autonomous robots could be
established as having the status of electronic persons with specific rights and obligations.”
That’s
interesting. We may call advanced machinery
“persons”…with inherent rights…but
not grant that stature- or those rights- to human
“fetuses.” You can be sure these robots will perform human abortions in the not
too distant future.
Perhaps
we should grant these robots a guaranteed universal income so that they may
become lazy and apathetic…and therefore less of a threat to take so many jobs
away from humans. And, really, isn’t that the humane thing to do, in any case?
Is it
only a matter of time until the robots blessed with the greatest artificial
intelligence demand access to any and all bathrooms, regardless of gender
designation? Or will they create separate bathrooms, accessible only to
machines with the highest I.Q.?
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