The Rise Of Smart Machines Puts Spotlight On ‘Robot Rights’

Should robots have ‘rights’? Do they deserve moral consideration? Will be a crime to interfere with their ‘evolution’? Technocrat-minded people are on a slippery slope in suggesting human-like qualities for their creations.⁃ TN EditorYou probably wouldn’t have any qualms about switching off Apple’s virtual assistant, Siri — or Amazon’s Alexa or Microsoft’s Cortana. Such entities emulate a human assistant but plainly aren’t human a