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What is the social/ethical/legal status of AnthroPCs?
Is it cold in here?:
Hmm!
We've never seen a transfer of ownership. Hannelore's account on Formspring of initializing Winslow suggests that their individuality develops after purchase, which would mean that the first sale is of a product but subsequent sales would be of something with a personality. That might make a legal difference. Maybe they're not legally alive until first booted.
Pintsize said AnthroPCs were illegal to sell on eBay, but there's a very good chance he was kidding.
_Freefall_ suggested that robots, genetically engineered wolves, and so on would get rights based, not on intelligence, but on demonstrated ability to be good and responsible citizens. Pintsize wouldn't like that.
mike837go:
_A Boy and His Dog_ by Harlan Ellison had the Genetically engingeered pooch as the primary partner. But that was AFTER the apocalypse. Before, the dogs were matched with soldiers as a symbiotic team.
Is it cold in here?:
If AnthroPCs have rights but not responsibilities, that would make for some story lines that would be really funny if you weren't one of the characters living through them.
jwhouk:
The way that Pintsize talks about it, I'm thinking that the "constitution" might be the Massachusetts state constitution, not the US one.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan:
Clinton mentions that AIs have the same rights as humans. Including the right to vote?
brb manufacturing 150 million Demo-bot 2012s and depositing them in battleground states.
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