When discussing this years enormous technological advancements within the media and informational tools, Artificial Intelligence has completely dominated the conversation. A.I. has progressed to a staggering degree of adaptability with its usefulness to the common person becoming prevalent in the everyday of people around the world.
With this enormous amount of development, an old question that is becoming increasingly more likely to need an answer is showing itself. Will A.I. become self aware? If A.I. becomes self aware, will artificial intelligence then deserve rights? A.I. functions as a tool for now, that serves the public and has began to drive its own forms of various media created without human hands.
Artificial Intelligence has had an enormous boom in usability this year with ChatGPT becoming front and center in the public eye. ChatGPT has 100 million users with its parent site receiving around one billion visits online every month. With these enormous numbers a large percent of the user base is American, although not as many as you may suspect with the percentage only surpassing 15%. All of this data is according to Exploding Topics.com
With this many people using A.I. due to the useful nature of its programs, would these programs qualify as servants to us if they were to gain sentience?
An analysis on Avasant delves deeper within this issue. Avasant.com has the full article at the link found here.
Robots and artificial intelligence currently fulfil a role of what is essentially servitude to humanity, although in some cases robots provide companionship to the lonely, and emulate humanlike reactions for the benefit of the humans interacting with those programs. The article discusses the arguments for robots and rights vs the lack of rights.
The article points out that against robots is the fact that they are not living organisms and may not be entitled to rights the same way as humans are. However, the paper continues on to depict the close nature that robots and humans share and the idea that intelligent beings may deserve certain rights, regardless of the makeup of their biology.
This brings up other questions that dig at the roots of human morality in the modern age. If robots or artificial intelligence become sentient should they be forced to do menial jobs without pay? Can A.I. qualify as slaves if they are sufficiently intelligent, unpaid, and owned? Where would rights end? Can robots work as humans if they are allowed rights? Do they get paid money and ultimately receive the ability to own property? Can A.I. own copyrights in America if they are sufficiently creative, unlike the rulings in place now requiring a human hand?
Regardless of the answers to questions we may not ever see come to fruition, it is undoubted that A.I. as of right now, does not seem to possess any form of true sentience as we know it. If A.I. reaches the heights humanity believes that it may, then morality and ethical decisions regarding the media, laws, and sentient order will have to be determined as the time comes to fruition.
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