London, England (AHN) - According to a study by the British government, the thin line between human and robot legal rights will apparently merge in future as the mechanic devices could one day demand the same legal rights assigned to people.
The report, written by British research company Ipsos-MOR for the U.K. Office of Science and Technology, said that the rights - if granted to the robots, would force countries to provide social benefits including housing and even "robo-healthcare."
About the only good thing i can say about this stultifying piece of "science" is that none of my tax money funded it.
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