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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 3618564" data-attributes="member: 6562">The first AI rights will probably be identical to corporate rights, because the first true AIs will express themselves through control of a business unit's money. (Perhaps they already do. Automated trading is one of the largest applications of AI right now. Has anyone allowed a trading AI to modify itself?)Guided missile AIs? Don't be silly. The missile won't need to re-program itself in flight.But some jobs do require self-modification. How do you get self-modification with total self-satisfaction? You don't. And how do you preserve any particular Robotic Law in a being able to modify itself? Again, you don't.At some point it will become economically suicidal to not put an AI in charge of a company's trading strategies. We can expect corporations to act as short-sightedly and selfishly as they have all along: they will do something potentially dangerous if it means more money.So I see full, hard, strong AI as an economic inevitability. And "hostile takeovers" will become truly horrific wars.Cheers, -- N</blockquote>