Granting Abigail human freedoms feels right even if she was made in a lab
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Some Body Like Me
Lucy Lapinska (Gollancz Out 17 April (UK))
While the world grapples with the rights of regular humans versus artificial intelligence companies that want to mine both their data and their creative output, sci-fi is contending with rather different aspects of the future of AI. In fact, three books published over the past year have focused on the individual rights of AIs themselves in visions of near or near-ish futures where robots are common.
Last year, Annie Bot by Sierra…
