{"id":157476,"date":"2023-02-09T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/why-giving-rights-to-robots-might-one-day-save-humans"},"modified":"2023-02-09T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T19:22:26","slug":"why-giving-rights-to-robots-might-one-day-save-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/why-giving-rights-to-robots-might-one-day-save-humans","title":{"rendered":"Why Giving Rights to Robots Might One Day Save Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-giving-rights-to-robots-might-one-day-save-humans2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my new article for Newsweek. Give it a read with an open mind! The day of superintelligence is coming, and we can attempt to make sure humans survive by being respectful to AI. This article explores some of my work at Oxford.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The discussion about giving rights to artificial intelligences and robots has evolved around whether they deserve or are entitled to them. Juxtapositions of this with women\u2019s suffrage and racial injustices are often brought up in philosophy departments like the University of Oxford, where I\u2019m a graduate student.<\/p>\n<p>A survey concluded 90 percent of AI experts believe the singularity\u2014a moment when AI becomes so smart, our biological brains can no longer understand it\u2014will happen in this century. A trajectory of AI intelligence growth taken over 25 years and extended at the same rate 50 years forward would pinpoint AI becoming exponentially smarter than humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s my new article for Newsweek. Give it a read with an open mind! The day of superintelligence is coming, and we can attempt to make sure humans survive by being respectful to AI. This article explores some of my work at Oxford. The discussion about giving rights to artificial intelligences and robots has evolved [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}