hi friends,

actually this might seem quiet far fetched but it has come to my mind after reading an article in a very prominent science magazine.

i was going through the magazine and i saw that their was this article in which a scientist of United kingdom has suggested that within 20 years their will be something of the sort of "Robot Rights" on the format of human rights and animal rights.

i just was thinking since then that how much will it be right doing that...i mean i do not know... i m a strong supporter of developing artificial intelligence, though i am one of the biggest critics also...but the point is that no matter how much advanced robots become in future and start showing human like emotions apart from other things, but still in the end we humans must know that in the end they are just chunks of metal...any kind of emotional attachment with them is i think can be dangerous...and i think talk of robot rights can emerge out of someone's heart who has a certain sort of emotional attachment to them....the point is we cannot penalise some one, some human being, after a certain extent for doing a harm to a robot...my example will make it more clear...suppose i am going through a market and i have a fight with a robot over some issue and suppose by some way, though it is highly impossible, i destroy that robot beyond repair...then what should happen to me...if their are robot roghts then most probably i will be charged with murder and treated accordingly...but i think most of us will agree that what would just have got "killed" is a so called metal piece with no soul and which can be built again...so i think the maximum I, the person who "killed" robot, must be charged with is destruction of someone else's property...

i think giving robots some kind of rights and hence some sort of legal protection will be highly irresponsible...

what do you guys think...

do write..

ok bye...

Well, in our day and age i strongly disagree with robot rights (seeing as there are no humanoid robots); however, in the future when they begin making robots more and more human the issue may come up. I do not believe robots that are just programmed to do jobs should be given rights. Robots that can be sorted under the "living" category should be able to have some rights though. For reference, to be "living" one must be able to think or process information, be able to learn, and have a fear of death. If a robot has these three qualities I do believe that it should have some rights to protect it; though, I don't think I would have the murder of such a robot a capital offense as if it were the murder of a human, but you would still have to pay for the damages of course.

robots have no feelings like in the movie I Robot they have no rights and they shouldn't there is no point lol lets say we give them rights their owner abuses that lol whats it going to do? robots shouldnt have rights they have no emotion no feelings

i agree with matrix. since they have no feelings then why should they have rights? but of course people will say you can make them have feelings with all the new technology nowadays.... but the only rights should belong to humans... and of course the animals too.

Like matrix said - robots have no feelings so...they have and shouldn't have any rights. I mean cmon...

Robots don't need any rights. It's not like they can vote and make their own laws. It's a machine! That would be like giving the computer rights. "Anyone would turns off the computer by holding in the power button will be sentenced to one month in jail." It just doesn't make sense(but if it does make sense to someone, feel free to try to make it a law). Robots can't think or make decisions and do some crucial things people can do. They can't really apply their knowledge to anything or analyze and understand what the data they know means. If they can do more than just be programmed information, then we may possible need laws, but there is no need currently. Plus, robots haven't even become a large part of our society yet. It's too early to be discussing questions about robots. But it's not a bad idea that may be taken into consideration at some point during the Earth's existence.

I don't think that this is a simple yes or know question. As they currently stand, then definitely not. But you have to remember that the human brain and body is a form of organic machine. What happens if at some point in the future, robots are built to be physically exactly the same as humans just exchanging inorganic material for organic. They will think and feel like humans and you have to concede at some point that a thinking feeling being, whether organic or machine deserves *some* rights. Maybe if we replicate humans on an inorganic level, they will have souls. Maybe they won't. I don't think that question will be able to be answered until a robot is built like that and scientists find a way of measuring the soul. Even now however, there is thought along the lines that machines may be able to have souls. The "ghost in the machine" as it's called.
If it got to that point - even if they didn't have souls - but still thought and felt, then I definitely think they should have at least some rights. But maybe I'm just too bigger Isaac Asimov fan

Yes the human brain is an orgainc machine. But humans are living creatures and as such have rights. Not because they make their own laws but because they are living breading creatures. This is also seen in animal rights although that is a compleatly different debate.

Robots are a machine and even if they have the most advanced A.I that we could ever imagine, they would never be living machines so therfore will never have rights.

hello friends,

its nice to hear from you people and see the varying views of all you people, from the firm yes to the firm no.

actually as some of you have pointed that it is not important right now but one day when robots start to think and feel exactly like humans then it will be required. My point is that no matter how equal in their thinking and working robots become to humans but still we need to remeber that they are machines created by us. it should never happen that we start giving them rights and slowly and slowly because of them they get out of control. you know these kind of things happen. you give some rights to someone and slowly and slowly they start crying for more and more and more.

but still these are my views....lets see what others think...

ok bye...keep writing...