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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
The only real issue is, Can humans deal with AIs as they would with other people? And if so, does that qualify AIs as Persons?
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One would hope humans *don't* treat AIs (or aliens) as they treat other humans.
Dealing with AIs as if they were people is too low a bar; dealing with them as equals will be the real breakthrough.
I'm thinking of Melinda Snodgrass' MEASURE OF A MAN; how even humans with a couple centuries' exposure to "others" needed a Shakespearean-grade speech to accept Commander Data as a person. And that in a "hopeful" fictional universe. In real life...?