https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2020/01/13/why-machines-should-have-rights-just-like-humans/

Like it or loathe it, the robot revolution is now well underway and the futures described by writers such as Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, and Philip K. Dick are fast turning from science fiction into science fact. But should robots have rights? And will humanity ever reach a point where human and machine are treated the same?

At the heart of the debate is the most fundamental question: what does it mean to be human? Intuitively, we all think we know what this means – it almost goes without saying. And yet, as a society, we regularly dehumanize others, and cast them as animal or less than human – what philosopher Giorgio Agamben describes as “bare life.”