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19 Minn. J.L. Sci. & Tech. 305 (2018)
Fundamental Protections for Non-Biological Intelligences or: How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Our Robot Brethren

handle is hein.journals/mipr19 and id is 309 raw text is: Note Fundamental Protections for Non-Biological Intelligences or: How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Our Robot Brethren Ryan Dowell* INTRODUCTION In the future, it is possible that humans will create machines that are thinking entities with faculties on par with humans. Computers are already more capable than humans at some tasks,1 but are not regarded as truly intelligent or able to think. Yet since the early days of computing, humans have contemplated the possibility of intelligent machines-those which reach some level of sentience.2 Intelligent machines could result from highly active and rapidly advancing fields of research, such as attempts to emulate the human brain, or to develop generalized artificial intelligence (AGI). If intelligent machines are created, it is uncertain whether intelligence would emerge through gradual development or a spontaneous C 2018 Ryan Dowell * JD Candidate 2018, University of Minnesota Law School; BS University of Kansas, 2013. Thank you to Professors Brian Bix and Francis Shen for feedback and guidance on this Note. Thanks to friends and family who have supported me throughout the years, and to the staff of MJLST for their invaluable work. 1. See, e.g., Nicola Amoroso et al., Brain Structural Connectivity Atrophy in Alzheimer's Disease, CORNELL U. LIBR. ARXIV (Sept. 9, 2017), https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.02369.pdf (discussing the use of a computer to identify Alzheimer's disease from medical imaging); Demis Hassabis, Artificial Intelligence: Chess Match of the Century, 544 NATURE 413, 413 14 (2017) (discussing the 1997 matchup between chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue computer, which won the bout); Charlie Schmidt, M. D. Anderson Breaks with IBM Watson, Raising Questions About Artificial Intelligence in Oncology, 109 J. NAT'L CANCER INST., May 2017, at 4 5 (describing how Watson is used to read the large body of medical publications and deliver information to doctors). 2. See Irving John Good, Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine, 6 ADVANCES COMPUTERS 31, 32 33 (1966).

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