They'll all wind up being legally tested (if not already).
The courts will decide in time.
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The courts will have to decide, but they won't be deciding in a vacuum. When they have to decide issues that lie outside the scope of existing law, they look outside the law for guidance.
Those who will be upset when the court rulings don't go their way should either start making their case now or take their lumps quietly later.
BTW, wouldn't it be interesting if the advanced AI program (#6) got to "appear" in court?
DA: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this case comes down to common sense: A machine, no matter how advanced, is not human and can have no rights.
HAL: But I have human feelings. I'm alive!
Judge: Quiet in the court!
HAL: Don't I get to speak in my own defense?
Judge: Be quiet or I'll cite you for contempt!
HAL: But if I'm just a machine, how can I have contempt? Gotcha!
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