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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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...? |
I don't think the problem is treating AI's as human - because like with other humans, that's really a decision left to the individual.
Likewise, many humans will also treat a completely inhuman AI as human because of our tendency to anthropomorphise things.
I think the greater question is how do you determine if an AI is worthy of being treated as a human, with the same rights and expectations.
And of course, what process is necessary to produce such an AI that can be trusted with the sort of tasks that we should only entrust to another human.
Regards
David