Animal rights was bad enough, with its implicit equation of animals and people, but now we have robot rights.  Instead of the Animal Liberation Front equating us with rats, we have the American Association for the Advancement of Science equating us with robots.  "Robot Ethics," an editorial in the November 16 issue of Science, its flagship publication, calls for "science fiction" to "be our guide as we sort out what laws, if any, to impose on robots and as we explore whether biological and artificial beings can share this world as equals."  The American Association for the Advancement of Science looks forward to "a man marrying a robot woman, and living, as one day all humans and robots might, happily ever after."Why is the United States so far behind its European and Asian allies in robot ethics?  Because "many U. S. robots are created for the military."  Apparently, killing terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan...(Read Full Post)