From Elaine’s Idle Mind:
Bread and Circuses I never really understood the appeal of Universal Basic Income, but after reading the European parliament’s proposal for Robotic Civil Rights I think I finally get it.
See, Europe wants to give robots a form of electronic personhood . Robots will have basic legal rights, provided that “robots are and will remain in the service of humans.” (Is the 13th Amendment a basic legal right in Europe, or is that just an American thing?) The report also proposes a universal basic income for humans, under the assumption that vassal robots will […]
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