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If a robot is conscious, is it OK to turn it off? The moral implications of building true AIs

  • Written by Anand Vaidya, Associate Professor of Philosophy, San José State University
imageWhat do you owe a faithful android like Data?CBS

In the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode “The Measure of a Man,” Data, an android crew member of the Enterprise, is to be dismantled for research purposes unless Captain Picard can argue that Data deserves the same rights as a human being. Naturally the question arises:...

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