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Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain... by dodo53 on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @04:29PM (#2561655)
Yes, I think my current thinking is: this should be considered. But I'm also cynical that lawmakers could get it right, or that the laws would be followed. Strong AI would presumably have military applications too, or could allow rogue nations to outcompete economically if they had 'friendly' strong AI.

As, as long as most of the population / electable people are religious, probably the idea cannot be debated (as many religious would say consciousness cannot be simulated).

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Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain... by patrickk on Thursday May 19, 2011 @10:07AM (#2563934)
"Strong AI would presumably have military applications too, or could allow rogue nations to outcompete economically if they had 'friendly' strong AI."

If you wish to explore this further, you may like to read the books behind the Halo video games, they're surprisingly good. For example, one of the books has an AI character, a cowboy, who controls the agricultural systems on a food-producing planet called Harvest.

Of course, there's also Cortana, one of the main characters from the Halo universe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana

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