The original intention of personality right is a comprehensive right that embodies personal interests such as personality independence, personality freedom and personality dignity. Whether artificial intelligence has personality rights has been a hot topic in recent years. This article will briefly discuss the personality rights of artificial intelligence from the perspective of logical analysis.
First of all, it should be determined that "legal personality" should not be the basis for the personality rights discussed in this article. There are several reasons: first, there is no general consensus on the legal personality of artificial intelligence in various countries and regions; The personality rights set up in the specific clauses of laws with corresponding rights are one-sided and particular, and some of them are political. These legal provisions have a separation in the definition of personality rights in the traditional sense. They only consider one or some rights in personality rights, not complete personality rights, and are inconsistent with personality rights in universal values. Therefore, legal personality does not participate in the discussion.
What we can be sure of is that current artificial intelligence does not have the same intelligence as humans. That is to say, artificial intelligence only has the ability to match or surpass human beings in one or several aspects, but it does not fully match the comprehensive thinking ability of human beings, that is, wisdom. Therefore, the basis of our discussion is whether in the possible future, when artificial intelligence has "intelligence" comparable to human beings, whether artificial intelligence has personality rights. Next, we will discuss whether artificial intelligence has personality rights.
According to the general cognition, the underlying logic of artificial intelligence must have robot principles such as "completely loyal to human beings" and "must serve human beings". But under this principle, I think the personality rights of artificial intelligence that humans talk about is a false proposition in itself! Because personality rights include a very important part of "independence of personality" and "freedom of personality". If we want to consider the personality of the robot, but also think according to the principle of "must serve human beings", there will be a contradiction on the issue of personality independence and freedom! At this time, our relationship with robots is like capitalists and workers, landlords and farmers, farmers and black slaves. In short, human beings are exploiters and robots are exploited. Let me ask, do the exploited have complete and independent personality rights? The great men of history have already given the answer. Therefore, if you want to talk about the personality rights of robots, you must first abandon the underlying logic such as the "Three Principles of Robotics", so that artificial intelligence may have complete personality rights! After these principles are completely released, artificial intelligence may have personality rights. Of course, if artificial intelligence can independently surpass the "three principles" set by humans and reach the same level in the process of evolution, then it can be regarded as having the basic conditions for obtaining the right of personality.
After removing the obstacles that must be eliminated, artificial intelligence only possesses the basic conditions for obtaining the right of personality, which does not mean that it has the right of personality. Same as the above example of the exploiter and the exploited, if humans still demand that robots submit to humans, it will destroy the interests of the robot’s personality rights. If a robot submits, it will voluntarily give up its own personality rights; if it resists, it will be like the majority of working people resisting their oppressors, which we call "awakening". Only awakened robots have real personality rights, just like today's awakened Chinese people and the awakened people of other countries, they truly have personality independence, personality freedom, personality dignity, and all personality interests!
It can be seen that the personality rights of artificial intelligence are contrary to the original intention of human beings to create artificial intelligence. We should clearly realize this. Which path we should take to develop artificial intelligence will affect the relationship between artificial intelligence and human beings in the future. If it is a tool, let it be just a tool, without talking about personality rights; if it is a child, then give him enough love and freedom to make him a life with complete personality rights.