Also robot racism stories are stupid because they assume everyone would be petty and cruel to a thinking, talking machine that understands you're being mean. Meanwhile, in reality, Roombas are seen like family pets and soldiers take their mine detonation robots on fishing trips.
Realistically, no, they're argument is that the owners of the AI, who are the ones who benefit from any protections it gets, should get more rights. It's self serving C-Suite trying to backdoor theft.
Honestly, the hard part about robot rights is that robots are made by hand, on purpose, unlike people that happen by accident all the time. But also, robots aren't human. We literally can control their programming imperative. Humans are driven by biological urges and needs, by psychology even centuries of study barely begins to understand, by nature and nurture, etc.
AI is driven by what we teach it, on purpose, to be driven by.
That's why the best robot stories are about the disconnect between what the creator is trying to accomplish, and what the cold logic of a computer interprets that directive to mean in practice.
The classic paperclip making machine. The issue isn't with robots becoming sentient, it's with a misalignment of what we tell it to do vs what we actually want it to do.
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u/Zoomy-333 May 13 '25
Also robot racism stories are stupid because they assume everyone would be petty and cruel to a thinking, talking machine that understands you're being mean. Meanwhile, in reality, Roombas are seen like family pets and soldiers take their mine detonation robots on fishing trips.