Futurist David Brin
Futurist David Brin: Get ready for the 'first robotic empathy crisis'
"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 protesters will be in the streets demanding rights for AI, Brin predicts, and those who aren't immediately convinced will be analyzed. "If they fool 40 percent of people but 60 percent of people aren't fooled, all they have to do is use the data on those 60 percent of people and their reactions to find out why they weren't fooled. Earlier this week influence marketing company Onanalytica called Brin the top influencer in artificial intelligence so far this year.