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Even if the robots themselves won't have many rights, humans will try to get them more rights by electing the politicians that will do it. Why would humans do t

Even if the robots themselves won't have many rights, humans will try to get them more rights by electing the politicians that will do it. Why would humans do that? Because I believe we will become emotional towards them. We can easily become emotional towards our pets, so it should be even easier with a robot that is even smarter than that. Heck, some people are even somewhat emotional towards their iPhones. The first step towards becoming more emotional will be naming them. I remember reading a couple of years ago about that cleaning robot Roomba, and how people started naming them, and when they were giving them away for repairing, they demanded the same robot back, not a replacement. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21102202/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/roombas-fill-emotional-vacuum-owners/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21102202/ns/technology_and_scien... http://gizmodo.com/5483750/peoples-emotional-attachment-to-roombas-bodes-well-for-inevitable-sex-robot-industry http://gizmodo.com/5483750/peoples-emotional-attachment-to-r...

eipipuz 15y ago
I kinda agree with you but then, there's the uncanny valley. I think slavery ended by slaves fighting for their rights more than the 'masters' being the source behind the movement. I read many 'masters' were emotionally and even romantically involved but didn't fought so much as cope with the system.
- nextparadigms 15y ago
  You raise an interesting point with the slavery. I'm not sure if it's such a good analogy, but saying it is, Abraham Lincoln did try to free the slaves. There will be people, probably a lot of people, who will feel threatened by them, just like now there are people being afraid of robots taking their jobs (which is another interesting debate), but things will still change gradually, as robots become smart enough, "lovable" enough, and human-like enough, and some people will even want to marry them. A few years ago I was reading sort of a joke, that by 2050, Massachusetts will be the first state that will allow human-to-robot marriages. There's already this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q4qwLknKag http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q4qwLknKag

eipipuz 15y ago

I kinda agree with you but then, there's the uncanny valley. I think slavery ended by slaves fighting for their rights more than the 'masters' being the source behind the movement. I read many 'masters' were emotionally and even romantically involved but didn't fought so much as cope with the system.

nextparadigms 15y ago
You raise an interesting point with the slavery. I'm not sure if it's such a good analogy, but saying it is, Abraham Lincoln did try to free the slaves. There will be people, probably a lot of people, who will feel threatened by them, just like now there are people being afraid of robots taking their jobs (which is another interesting debate), but things will still change gradually, as robots become smart enough, "lovable" enough, and human-like enough, and some people will even want to marry them. A few years ago I was reading sort of a joke, that by 2050, Massachusetts will be the first state that will allow human-to-robot marriages. There's already this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q4qwLknKag http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q4qwLknKag