A Bill of Rights for the Age of Artificial Intelligence

In 1950, Norbert Wiener's The Human Use of Human Beings was at the cutting edge of vision and speculation in proclaiming: But this was his book's denouement, and it has left us hanging now for 68 years, lacking not only prescriptions and proscriptions but even a well-articulated "problem statement." We have since seen similar warnings about the threat of our machines, even in the form of outreach to the masses, via films like Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), The Terminator (1984), The Matrix (1999), and Ex Machina (2015). But now the time is ripe for a major update with fresh, new perspectives -- notably focused on generalizations of our "human" rights and our existential needs. Concern has tended to focus on "us versus them" (robots) or "gray goo" (nanotech) or "monocultures of clones" (bio). To extrapolate current trends: What if we could make or grow almost anything and engineer any level of safety and efficacy desired?