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Article 7147 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: AI rights :-)
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Date: 7 Oct 92 16:03:59 GMT
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 > Forgive me if this subject has already been discussed to death here...
 > 
 > One major problem I foresee with the arrival of "true AI" is that
 > they may end up being slaves. Many people still believe that the
 > universe was created only 10,000 years ago, I think many religious
 > people will refuse to accept AI's as being equally sentient, and
 > instead decide that they are souless and thus ok to keep as slaves.
 > 
 > Has anyone thought about trying to head off this disaster by insuring
 > the rights of all sentient beings before "true AI" comes to pass?
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I eat fish only beause they are lower than animals. I do not eat pig
(and of course I do not dolphins and horsemeat).

Is there a suggestion that I could eat some lower forms or AI
hardware?

Gordon,
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