Machine Intelligence and Human Ethics

[Sal]

I know that in the earliest days of space exploration dogs and chimps were used as test subjects and no one minded all that much.  But there is a feeling about animal 'rights' today that did not exist even a generation ago.  Might not the same be eventually true of machines?

Boru

We already do, thanks in large part to sci-fi.

I have no doubt that there even will be for AGIs a question of legal status of personhood granted them. Probably only a few years after we've been able to "formulate" true AGI.