{"id":73501,"date":"2017-10-26T08:23:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/for-the-first-time-ever-a-robot-was-granted-citizenship"},"modified":"2017-10-26T08:23:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:23:21","slug":"for-the-first-time-ever-a-robot-was-granted-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/for-the-first-time-ever-a-robot-was-granted-citizenship","title":{"rendered":"For the First Time Ever, a Robot Was Granted Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dMrX08PxUNY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Clearly, the robot that previously made headlines because she said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W0_DPi0PmF0\">she\u2019ll destroy humankind<\/a> has since embraced \u201cbeing human\u201d to a certain extent.<\/p>\n<p><b>Robot Citizenship<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The decision to grant a robot citizenship adds to<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/should-make-ai-kill-switch-give-robots-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the growing debate<\/a> of whether or not <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/what-rights-should-we-give-to-sentient-robots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">robots should be given rights<\/a> similar to human beings. Earlier this year, the European Parliament proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/should-we-give-ais-the-same-rights-as-humans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">granting AI agents \u201cpersonhood\u201d status<\/a>, giving them particular rights and responsibilities. While robot rights are in question, one expert suggests it should be <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/sorry-westworld-we-should-be-able-to-torture-robots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">possible for humans to torture robots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/for-the-first-time-ever-a-robot-was-granted-citizenship\/?utm_content=buffer426b2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/for-the-first-time-ever-a-robot-was-gra...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly, the robot that previously made headlines because she said she\u2019ll destroy humankind has since embraced \u201cbeing human\u201d to a certain extent. Robot Citizenship The decision to grant a robot citizenship adds to the growing debate of whether or not robots should be given rights similar to human beings. Earlier this year, the European Parliament [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73501","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}