Should robots be given rights?

Source:https://www.digitalworldhub.com/others/science/can-not-give-rights-robot/

Robots are slowing becoming more and more advanced to the point where they can almost act like human beings. This arises the question whether or not robots should be given rights just like human beings. Even then there is always the question job how much freedom should robots be given, for example if we give them complete free will they may become sentient making them impossible to control. Therefore we should give them right following Asimov’s 3 fundamental laws of robotics:

  1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

If we create rights for robots using these 3 fundamental laws it shouldn’t create any issue but there is still the issue of human greed, we can see this from the introduction of war robots which break basically all the laws of robotics. Seeing this if we were to give robots rights we would need to do a lot more inept research into the topic before making a valid judgement.

Should robotic advancement be heavily targeted towards the sexual market?

source:https://www.wired.com/2016/04/the-scarlett-johansson-bot-signals-some-icky-things-about-our-future/

While Robots may soon be able to fulfil the pleasure of humans it will never quite be able to replace the feeling of being able to create a relationship with a real human being. This creates a lot of ethical issues as if robots were introduced as sexual objects people would be more inclined to just use them for their needs rather than try and create healthy relationships. So while commercial robots have still not really reached the point where they can’t be used for more than cleaning such as robotic vacuum cleaners it is clear that we need to consider the possible disadvantages of introducing robots in the sexual market. An very clear example of how these robots may effect society is seen in how dependant humans are of their smartphones, we can’t imagine a day without a phone in our pocket whereas back a little over 2 decades ago only a few people ever carried around a mobile phone. So maybe the introduction of sexual robots may cause the same issue.

Could the advancement of robots increase the dependance society has on technology?

source:https://hackernoon.com/the-next-step-in-the-evolution-of-robotics-and-artificial-intelligence-97b249a0df88

In Modern Society we can see how dependant people have become in technology to survive from day to day. Think about how much dependancy we have on smartphones, it wakes us up in the morning, keeps us up-to-date with our work and even reminds us on important events which otherwise we may forget. So imagine if we introduced robots into our lives, we would probably stop doing basic everyday tasks such as cooking, cleaning and even laundry as robots would be able to do all these tasks for us and much more.