#AI#Robots#RobotsRights#AIEthics: "In this work we challenge the argument for robot rights on metaphysical, ethical and legal grounds. Metaphysically, we argue that machines are not the kinds of things that may be denied or granted rights. Building on theories of phenomenology and post-Cartesian approaches to cognitive science, we ground our position in the lived reality of actual humans in an increasingly ubiquitously connected, controlled, digitized, and surveilled society. Ethically, we argue that, given machines’ current and potential harms to the most marginalized in society, limits on (rather than rights for) machines should be at the centre of current AI ethics debate. From a legal perspective, the best analogy to robot rights is not human rights but corporate rights, a highly controversial concept whose most important effect has been the undermining of worker, consumer, and voter rights by advancing the power of capital to exercise outsized influence on politics and law. The idea of robot rights, we conclude, acts as a smoke screen, allowing theorists and futurists to fantasize about benevolently sentient machines with unalterable needs and desires protected by law. While such fantasies have motivated fascinating fiction and art, once they influence legal theory and practice articulating the scope of rights claims, they threaten to immunize from legal accountability the current AI and robotics that is fuelling surveillance capitalism, accelerating environmental destruction, and entrenching injustice and human suffering." https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13628
🌖In the future, we expect to see a proliferation of #Robots exploring the #moon
🤖 Loïck Chovet is working on #technologies that will allow robots to trust each other & exchange services, fostering seamless collaboration in their endeavours.
⭐Over the last three decades, #luxembourg has made the development of the #spaceindustry a priority and has created a thriving space scene.
Can we stop making robots look humanoid already? Make them look weird and machine-like; they’ll probably work better that way anyway. Making things that look humanoid yet violate the physical expectations applicable to humans is an insult to actual humans.
“Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas robot is a swiveling, shape-shifting nightmare”
It’s weird to be riding on a cable car in San Francisco, a method of transport developed here in the 1870’s, and see a fully autonomous self-driving taxi pull up right next to you. #history#transportation#science#cars#robots
If FLOSS is built on the four freedoms, and FLOSS has created an environment that is brittle, then perhaps it’s time for FLOSS to similarly augment the four freedoms.
We have to address this in a fundamental way. The alternative may well be the (eventual) end of FLOSS as we know it.
would love to have a #techbro explain how their obsession with busting #labor#unions, replacing white collar workers with #AI and owning #robots to do what they think are menial jobs, is not about slavery 🤨 @evacide.