Will any rights be granted to a silicon-based intelligence before 2050?
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Will any government - or legal framework applicable to more than, let's say, 1 million people - provide legal rights (along the lines of a right to exist) to an intelligence based on silicon?
This could be, e.g., an AI or a full/partial brain upload from a biological intelligence.
This might need some finessing and I'm not a lawyer. The spirit of the question is, broadly, when will the existence of intelligence existing within a computer be sufficiently established that society deems it worthy of legal recognition?
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