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I hope this never happens. What happens when we can't hold people liable for their actions anymore? Punishment isn't very meaningful for machines, as suffering

I hope this never happens. What happens when we can't hold people liable for their actions anymore? Punishment isn't very meaningful for machines, as suffering isn't integral to their experience. If we give robots agency, we risk creating something that can be scapegoated.

tadblarney 10y ago
This can never happen. The author starts out with an irrational premise. It's not like the landscape is changing so that 'machines are owning more stuff'. --- Machines cannot own things ---- When you die - someone else owns your stuff. It's really complicated. Suppose you own a highly automated vending machine business. You die. Now your kids own it. Or whoever. The entire premise of the article fails when you realize that 'stuff is always owned' by someone, or the government, or nobody - but there is no 'machine ownership' by definition and not amount of automation will ever change that.