Should robots have rights?
December 8, 2017 by Molly Callahan
As robots gain citizenship and potential personhood in parts of the world, it's appropriate to consider whether they should also have rights.
So argues Northeastern professor Woodrow Hartzog, whose research focuses in part on robotics and automated technologies.
"It's difficult to say we've reached the point where robots are completely self-sentient and self-aware; that they're self-sufficient without the input of people," said Hartzog, who holds joint appointments in the School of Law and the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern. "But the question of whether they should have rights is a really interesting one that often gets stretched in considering situations where we might not normally use the word 'rights.'"
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https://phys.org/news/2017-12-robots-rights.html#jCp
