Steelcan wrote...
Xilizhra wrote...
Steelcan wrote...
I hate to go Jurassic Park on this but...
If say the wooly mammoth is brought back from extinction, and there are groups attempting this, its legal status would probably be property as it was created for a function by a human. AI's will likely be similar.
Possibly, though of course they're not sapient. And could still be legally removed if they were being abused, or the like.
Not if they are made patents of the respective creators.
It's the creation process that's patented, not the animals themselves.
The clone would retain bodily autonomy. You cannot own a human being
legally, thus have no right to end its life, regardless of whether or
not you're only doing so to reclaim some equipment you put in there. A
machine, however, is property through and through. Every single piece is
private property, produced to serve one particular purpose. It has no
basis in nature and has no ability to be anything other than what its
users wish to do with it, which is NOT true of the human body, clone or
otherwise.
Then many laws would have to be rewritten to account for sapience in beings produced with other hardware. I will not tolerate slavery under any circumstances.
Modifié par Xilizhra, 20 octobre 2013 - 02:09 .