Always on the cutting edge, Ray Kurzweil’s AI site features a mock courtroom drama, wherein a conscious computer argues for its inalienable right to self-determination.
“ANTHONY DUTTON, ESQUIRE: We are in the Federal Court for the Central District of Florida. And we have today before us, myself and Judge Silverman, presiding. We have a petition by BINA48, an intelligent computer, to prevent its owner and creator, Exabit Corporation, from either turning off its power, or if it turns off its power, from reconfiguring it; and BINA48 doesn’t want that to happen . . .”
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