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Robot Rights & Alien Intelligences w/ David J. Gunkel

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The Importance of Robot Rights in the 21st Century

David Wheeler: Why is this concept of robot rights so important in the 21st century? He says it forces us to establish and perhaps even argue the case for what is so special or maybe not so special about human beings. Wheeler: We need to look at rights as a spectrum of different powers, privileges, claims and immunities that recognizes the social, moral and legal status of different entities.

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