By Selwyn Duke

Will we one day see the hashtag #RobotLivesMatter? While a ridiculous notion, it’s not all that far from what has, quite oxymoronically, been proposed by a European Parliament (EP) committee: human rights for robots.  

It’s all part of a “draft report,” writes RT.com, “approved by 17 votes to two and two abstentions by the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs, [which] proposes that ‘The most sophisticated autonomous robots could be established as having the status of electronic persons with specific rights and obligations.’”

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