The Daily Sheeple – by Joshua Krause
As of now, artificial intelligence is nowhere near as aware or competent as a human. Heck, even the most powerful supercomputers lack the consciousness of a small animal. We don’t even know if computers are capable of achieving rudimentary consciousness. But that hasn’t stopped the European Union from proposing a law that would define robots as “electronic persons.”
A motion was recently proposed in the EU parliament that would ask the European Commission to consider “that at least the most sophisticated autonomous robots could be established as having the status of electronic persons with specific rights and obligations.” The reason for this idea however, has less to do with establishing rights for machines that may or may not become sentient someday, and more to do with money. Continue reading “Asinine EU Wants To Redefine Robots As “Electronic Persons””

