Denial of rights to robots
- Denial of rights of machine intelligences
Claim
- In the immediate future it is expected that robots will exist with many of the characteristics currently ascribed to humans and may even become an intimate companions to humans. No provision has been made for any extension of human rights to cover such cases.
Counter claim
- Robots are machines and will remain so. As inanimate objects they are devoid of rights. Since they have restricted mobility, must be artificially programmed for thought, lack senses as well as the associated emotions, and are unable to experience suffering or fear, they lack the essential conditions to be considered alive.