A Speculation and Analysis of the Freedom of Speech of Artificial Intelligences

"Milton's voice was not stifled or choked for making Satan a heroic figure… in fact, in "Areopagitica", the blind poet champions free speech: Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience above all liberties…. Artificial Intelligence may, in the foreseeable future, be an entity that thinks independently enough to enjoy the pleasures of expression the way humanity does. Whether it may have the potential evils of a Satan is to be seen, but its ontology and a legal framework to accommodate it may be in order. Morality aside, it may be reasonably seen that it is a power that can possibly "make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven" [2] of the world. It may be pointed out that the possibility of "strong artificial intelligence" -- artificial intelligence constructs that are comparable to a human brain, with features like consciousness that are identified with being human,[3] are entirely hypothetical and may remain so.