Should the Antares Confederacy allow the construction of artificial lifeforms?

yes but no nanites please

jay

I agree with my fellows here. However believe we should not alter ourselves. by all means improve ourselves but we shouldn't push to improve on our human form.

I believe the idea of artificial intelligence is great but only used in a capacity to serve humanity's interests than create the very thing that may bring about our demise as a species. I welcome our new metallic servants, as our aides, domestic servants, our workers, and as soldiers in the Confederate military to help reduce human involvement, so more people can go home to live life in peace than to die in war. I don't agree with robotic citizenship but agree in the idea to produce them as basic servants and as a alternative to human or other Xeno soldiers in the field.

Michael Stevens

As a representative of the Trans-Human Initiative I say this is an important step towards mainstream cybernetics and perhaps, transcendence into machines ourselves. After all we can only truly be equal if we are all the same.

I believe we already did that, as the Confederacy already has Rudimentary Robots within but it is important they have rights, we are not the UTP after all!

The construction and propagation of a new form of artificial life is something that must be carefully considered. The existing Artificial Intelligences that populate the galaxy must be consulted and studied to understand the extent of our actions and the connotations. The history of human literacy has countless tales of man playing god, creating life carelessly. Why must we make this step, are we fully prepared as a republic to fairly and properly represent the rights and lives of our own creations. Creations for the sake of boosting a workforce, slavery in unfavorable terms. I vote to prohibit the construction of artificial life because I do not feel the government or citizenry of the Republics understand or even are capable of taking on such burden.

It is important to legislate for the rights of artificial sentient beings before we create them to prevent the abuses that are bound to happen in an unregulated environment when we make their potential potential a reality.

If it is at all possible to construct such self-aware machines, then they are inevitably going to be built, either in the open or hidden from view, i argue that, if this is the case we have an ethical obligation to opt for the first scenario. My reasoning is as follows: If it is inevitable that such machines will be built, then we are ethically obligated to build them in a enviroment that will forment their intergration into our Confederacy, rather than to let them be built onc landestine facilities and possibly allow for sentient-rights violations. We have a moral duty to provide those new beings all the liberties and duties they are entitled to as sentients.

Peter T

How I Stopped Worrying and Loved the Machine

ReaverCity

As far as artificial intelligence is concerned, I say let it come. And let it flourish as all other life has. We're not playing God any more than parents play God by producing children. And just like our children, artificial life is entitled to pursue its own destiny as equal to our own. Artificial life is already granted the full rights of citizenship under the Confederate Constitution, as they would have under the Constitution of Retiva. I will fight to ensure that the rights of an AI are not trampled by anyone, the same as I'd do for any other species of life.

Andrei Chira

I'm skeptical. The goal of automation should be to improve the lives of Antarean citizens, augment our capabilities, make work safer and more productive. *This* sounds like phase one of a plan to diminish and replace free citizens with something more docile and easily controlled. Let's stop and enjoy the benefits of our existing technology - and think through the consequences - before we charge blindly down the path of progress.