European Parliament to debate 'human' rights for robots
MEPs to ponder robot rights, on the one hand, and kill switches on the other.
The European Parliament is today debating whether 'human' rights should be extended to robots and other machines with artificial intelligence. Also under consideration is whether robots should have...
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