JOUR 601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 78: Hand Tool, Sentience, Actual Malice
19 Aug 2020
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Machines like robots and artificial intelligence bring up a lot of complications with the idea that they might be entitled rights to free speech. Mean machine speech causes a lot of harms and potential copyright/trademark infringement. There is also the thought that these machines may take part in spreading misinformation during campaigns to interfere with elections. A robot would need to have the ability to be subject to the law if they were to be liable for harms to speech in civil lawsuits or criminal prosecutions via state penalties. It would need to have property to pay civil lawsuit damage or have some way of being punished or imprisoned for criminal offense cases. It would be pointless, some people argue, for robots to be seen as liable for their actions because they don"t have property. Futuristic illustrations of robots and artificial intelligence in science fiction writing show situations where this could potentially happen.
