how to punish robots when they inevitably turn against us

[bcbm]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/05/how-to-punish-robots-when-they-inevitably-turn-against-us/

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

If I'm reading this correctly...

Due to the narrow definitions used in law (in which a machine gathering input through a camera for example can be said to be "aware" in legal terms), we already have legal mechanisms in place that can be used to bring sanctions against not only the manufacturers (through liability) and the operators, but the machines themselves as well?

So are we decades away from seeing our first machine on trial, or am I totally misunderstanding the article?

[bcbm]

no thats basically the impression i got too

[Buttress]

Advanced AI + bourgeois justice system = hilarious results

[TheRedAnarchist23]

Isn't that equivalent of punishing a son and his mother, because the son missbehaved?

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Isn't that equivalent of punishing a son and his mother, because the son missbehaved?

Actually it's more like punishing a machine because it has some degree of autonomous capability, even if such a machine wouldn't be considered a person even by sloppy Kurzweil-like standards.

[Comrade #138672]

If I'm reading this correctly...

Due to the narrow definitions used in law (in which a machine gathering input through a camera for example can be said to be "aware" in legal terms), we already have legal mechanisms in place that can be used to bring sanctions against not only the manufacturers (through liability) and the operators, but the machines themselves as well?

So are we decades away from seeing our first machine on trial, or am I totally misunderstanding the article?You are reading this correctly, indeed.