Should artificial intelligence be protected by human rights?

With great strides in the world of artificial intelligence (referred to as AI), experts have now begun to question the kind of protection we may need to counteract the clues. Potential dangers of computers and robots in the future.

Marcus du Sautoy, a mathematician from Oxford University, expressed his view: "Does the robot need protection from us? Because the computer's intelligence is always evolving closer to something that is difficult to separate from intelligence." proving people, new generations of technology need to be morally and legally guaranteed as human rights ".

Du Sautoy said once the sophistication of computer thinking reaches a basic level like human consciousness, that's when we need to take care of its welfare.

Should artificial intelligence be protected like human rights.(Photo: corbis).

Du Sautoy also thinks that the AI rights story is gradually becoming necessary because of recent advances in areas such as neuroscience. The mathematician was present at the literary festival in Wales to promote the book "What We Cannot Know" . He said that new technology has given us ever more clear insights into the nature of mental processes such as thought and consciousness - which means that this is no longer a matter for philosophers.

"We are in a golden age like Galileo with a telescope. We now have this kind of glass in the brain and it gives us the opportunity to see things that have never been seen , " Du said. Sautoy said.

We should respect all forms of consciousness whether it is organic or synthetic. While the concept of a computer protected by human rights is like science fiction, this is really a quick access that scientists have speculated over decades. The biggest question remains: When does the computer system become so advanced that its artificial consciousness must be recognized and respected.

A series of commentators have set a timeframe for this issue from 2020 to a time of the next 50 years, despite the rapid pace that artificial intelligence is progressing as learning to communication or activities that we cannot detect. That means no one can be sure about this.

Du Sautoy could not say when that time would come or just when it happened as the title of the book he had set "What We Cannot Know".