A nice chat with Google’s Larry Page, circa 2038 (eight years after their acquisition of Microsoft).
Excerpt:
You mentioned employees, and their rights. What is your stance on robot rights?
This is a complex issue, and one that hasn’t been really solved during the last decade, in my opinion. We apply the Marissa Test named after our ex-User Experience Vice President. Our experts will tell the machine a really sad story and if the machine starts to cry, we will give it “human” rights like payment, off-days and so on. By the way, they don’t like to be called robots…
Really? Why not?
They like to be called robotic persons, that’s all. Some of these machines, or persons, can be quite sensitive. It’s part of our philosophy to support this.
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