Servant of Erbai and his right

This has only been seen in cartoons so far. Employees in a showroom, let's not say showroom, in Shanghai were not a little surprised when they did not find their robots in the place where they usually stand but in a completely different room. They were only surprised when they looked at the security camera footage. They show how a small robot approaches a group of a dozen parked larger "colleagues" and starts some kind of communication with them. Soon the little robot starts, followed by the other robots.

Then came an additional shock when they deciphered the communication. The small robot asked the big robots how they were doing, how much they were working, whether they had enough rest, and the latter replied that they were working a lot, that they never rested, that it was difficult for them. Robotić Erbai then invited them to go home with him, so that everyone could have a nice rest. He didn't need to tell them twice.

When this news appeared, everyone first thought it was a stunt, but the owners of the salon denied it. The event is authentic, and it happened because of a security flaw in the software that the robots use. In order to make them as humane as possible, they added empathy and self-pity to them, and it seems that from there to taking control of the robots was a small step or a roll, since all robots are on wheels.

And while many were amused by this situation, artificial intelligence experts were seriously worried. It is clear that robots do not have feelings, not even feelings of fatigue or precariousness. When the battery is significantly discharged, the robot goes to recharge, there is no possibility of "breaking" itself, as it happens to humans. In this case, someone programmed them badly and it was not discovered by Erbai, but by the person who was controlling it at that moment. So some living hacker found that software hole and used it to order a group of robots to follow him. The fact that it is garnished with interesting communication only makes the matter more spicy.

The greater danger is in discovering the possibility that a machine can start other machines and take them with it. This means that such a robotic car could spot all the self-driving cars on the street and take them in a convoy in an unknown direction, say to a garage where they will be torn to pieces. It would be even worse if he did it while there were people in them who would either continue to drive like that until they arrived or would be forced to jump out of the moving vehicle. Because someone else would take control of the car. We leave it to the reader to imagine all the possible situations where it could be used maliciously.

One part of this story is certainly the security one. Is my robotic assistant, whether it's a car, a home assistant or a stove, secure enough or can it be hacked contactless? The second part is union. Do robots have any rights, should their working hours be limited in order to be regularly maintained and recharged? By the fact that I have honestly paid for a humanized robot, have I acquired the right to do with it what I want, even to break it with a hammer or make it work until it burns out or the manufacturer can program protection against that? Does a machine acquire any rights if it is capable of "thinking" and "talking"?

Questions like these may seem premature, but rest assured that they will be an important topic as the development of artificial intelligence progresses. A machine that coherently answers our questions, proposes, analyzes will deserve some rights, the only question is what kind.