Ethical / legal question

[shaunbhoy]

What is the legal test for "proving it alive"?

My cat is alive but it cannot commit a crime.

Rubbish. Have you never heard of cat burglars?

HTH

[vetran]

It would be up to the courts/legislators to decide whether passing the Turing test was sufficient to declare an AI a legal person. The only issue I see with using the Turing test is that it isn't hard to think of occasions where a human might fail the Turing test. Do we then deny them their rights? Probably not.

Indeed it would raise the question is the AI sufficient to be considered a sentient being and do we need a branch of law to cope with that?

Doubt they would deny a person their humanity if they failed. Currently our law deals with Human actions and in some cases animal behaviour where its thought they are independent of their owners.

I sort of expect AI to get its own little definition in Law. Its too complicated to try and judge as human.

[Old Greg]

It would be up to the courts/legislators to decide whether passing the Turing test was sufficient to declare an AI a legal person. The only issue I see with using the Turing test is that it isn't hard to think of occasions where a human might fail the Turing test. Do we then deny them their rights? Probably not.

Does the Turing test signify mens rea?

[vetran]

A fairly typical output.

What accurate and polite maybe you need to up your game?

[d000hg]

Rubbish. Have you never heard of cat burglars?

HTH

I thought they stole cats!


Anyway is being sentient enough? Is a dolphin or an ape sentient? And even if another life form is sentient, who are we to say they should follow our laws?

[NotAllThere]

Does the Turing test signify mens rea?

Is that like a cross between being on the blob and having the runs?

[Old Greg]

What accurate and polite maybe you need to up your game?

Masterful! Exactly the kind of breakdown in sentence structure that could almost convince one that a real organic cretin is posting!

[vetran]

Does the Turing test signify mens rea?

No its a legal term applied to humans, as posted repeatedly above by multiple posters AI would be a new thing that would require careful consideration probably as new branch of law. Just as the law is changed for different cultures we would need to change it for whole new life forms.

[vetran]

Masterful! Exactly the kind of breakdown in sentence structure that could almost convince one that a real organic cretin is posting!

Sorry I'm trying to push myself beyond using the word Cretin in every sentence. Give me a shout if you need help with that.

[NotAllThere]

Sorry I'm trying to push myself beyond using the word Cretin in every sentence. Give me a shout if you need help with that.

Sas, you got the wrong logon that time.