Inspired by a recent post of mine, Ian has written a short science fiction story entitled “Pro-Life” and posted it on his blog Irreducible Complexity. I think it is really good, and hope it gets a wide circulation and lots of reads. It addresses an issue that is currently a staple of science fiction, but may one day soon be a matter of current events: What rights will digital persons, artificial intelligences, have in our human societies, if such entities ever come to exist?
Hopefully the answer will be “the same rights we would want if they ever become the predominant persons in society.”
Read Ian’s story, and let me (and him) know what you think of it.
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