If you give an AI a right ...
Freedom of Speech has been consistently defended by the Supreme Court as being dependent upon speech and not the speaker. The barriers to extending free speech protection to strong AI are surprisingly low. Indeed, if corporations, unions and other non-human entities are entitled to free speech protection, it becomes difficult to argue that a non-human intelligence should not have the same protection. If AI can be a rights holder under the First Amendment, what other Constitutional protections might they hold?
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2643043_code575020.pdf?abstractid=2643043&mirid=1&type=2
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AI and First Amendment Rights
A really interesting article on AI an the First Amendment. From the article,
In this Essay, we explain why current free speech theory and doctrine pose surprisingly few barriers to this counterintuitive result; the elasticity of current theory and doctrine suggests that speaker humanness no longer may be a logically essential part of the First Amendment calculus. We further observe, however, that free speech theory and doctrine provide a basis for regulating, as well as protecting, the speech of nonhuman speakers to serve the interests of their human listeners should strong AI ever evolve to this point.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2643043
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