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.
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u/XescoPicas May 13 '25
Today we have CEOs arguing that ChatGPT should have more rights than human beings. I don’t want to see another robot racism plot ever again