AI rights theme
We are made to ponder what intrinsic rights we feel should belong to any human-like sentient being that happens to be artificially constructed.
Examples
Data was granted parental rights over his android creation Lal when Admiral Haftel attempted to separate the father and daughter in tng3x16 "The Offspring".
47 total · 16 choice · 17 major · 14 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| blackmirror-specialx1 | choice | Is it ethical for people to use their digital clone for menial work? And to punish the Joe digital clone in his solitary confinement for eons? |
| blackmirror4x01 | choice | We are made to ponder how unethical it was for Robert Daly to keep digital clones of his coworkers trapped in a Star Trek-like pace adventure game universe. |
| blackmirror4x06 | choice | We are made to ponder whether it should not be against the law to execute the digital clone of a person over and over again. |
| Collection: Real Humans | choice | At the center of the story were whether and to what extent Hubots ought to enjoy legal protection against various kinds of mistreatment, like people do. Season 1 revolves around a collection of renegade Hubots, along with their cybernetically enhanced leader Leo, struggling to free their android brethren from bondage. In the early part of season 1, the renegade Hubots worried whether humans would accept them or persecute them. In season 1, Inger took on a lawsuit against the nightclub that possibly discriminated against her friends, Therese and Pilar, for denying their Hubot boyfriends entry. The latter part of season 2 concerned what rights Florentine should have as a Hubot spouse, later widow, and mother. |
| movie: Ex Machina (2015) | choice | is it right to keep her locked up against her will |
| tng2x03 | choice | should Moriarty have the usual rights that come with being a person, if he was one |
| tng2x06 | choice | Data not granted the same freedoms a human would have been in light of his strange behavior |
| tng2x09 | choice | Data's personhood challenged in a court of law |
| tng3x16 | choice | Does Data have parental rights over Lal, and does Lal have right to choose her own fate? |
| tng6x09 | choice | Data advocates for exocomp rights |