Oscar-winner Hilary Swank was reading an article during a recent flight that she couldn’t put down. It got her thinking about a brave new world dominated by robotics and artificial intelligence — specifically, over the question of whether robots have rights, and of how we’ll treat them when they’re as ubiquitous as smartphones are today.
Like, if they begin to approach personhood — not a far-fetched notion at all given how much humanity that tech giants are trying to instill in digital assistants and so on — how far do we take this? Do they deserve rights, to the same degree that we enjoy? And if they do, what then? How do turn them off at night? How do you unplug something like that? Should you?
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Hilary Swank talks to us about her dark new Netflix thriller ‘I Am Mother’ originally appeared on BGR.com on Sun, 9 Jun 2019 at 09:02:01 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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