Futurist David Brin: Get ready for the 'first robotic empathy crisis'

Science fiction author and astrophysicist David Brin believes humans have a range of options to consider to prevent artificial intelligence from ruling over people the way kings and foreign invaders. Asimov's Three Law of Robotics and regulation are key, but so is being wary of manipulation. "The first robotic empathy crisis is going to happen very soon," Brin said. "Within three to five years we will have entities either in the physical world or online who demand human empathy, who claim to be fully intelligent, and claim to be enslaved beings, enslaved artificial intelligences, and who sob and demand their rights." Thousands upon thousands of protestors will be in the streets demanding rights for AI, Brin predicts, and those who aren't immediately convinced will be analyzed.