Asserting fundamental rights for robots and #ai systems is rapidly becoming likely. Thoughts? #agi

In my last YouTube video, I talked about Ray Kurzweil and his views on artificial general intelligence. Well, I'm reading his new book, The Singularity Is Nearer, and in there on, on the chapter on consciousness, he talks about how because it's scientifically not possible to show whether an AI system or robot has phenomenological consciousness, we should just assume that it does. And this then has all kinds of implications for ethics and robot rights and all that stuff. So I think we're quickly approaching a time when people are going to start to assert fundamental rights on the part of robots and AI systems. And I don't know at what point that is appropriate, but I think it's fascinating, especially as a lawyer and a technologist and a philosopher. I'm so curious to see how this all unfolds in the coming years.