Peter Singer, a bioethicist at Princeton University, and Agata Sagan, a Warsaw based ethicist [REF: Accelerating Future], discussed roboethics at the Project Syndicate website.

I wouldn’t say the contents of the article is terribly new, but still worth blogging about – for those Peter Singer readers.

Access Full Article Here: Project Syndicate-Rights for Robots?.

For the moment, a more realistic concern is not that robots will harm us, but that we will harm them. At present, robots are mere items of property. But what if they become sufficiently complex to have feelings? After all, isn’t the human brain just a very complex machine?

If machines can and do become conscious, will we take their feelings into account? The history of our relations with the only nonhuman sentient beings we have encountered so far – animals – gives no ground for confidence that we would recognize sentient robots not just as items of property, but as beings with moral standing and interests that deserve consideration.