The European Union is currently considering the need to redefine the legal status of robots, with a draft report last week suggesting that autonomous bots might, in the future, be granted the status of “electronic persons” — a legal definition that confers certain “rights and obligations.” It sounds like science fiction and that's because it is: any engineer will tell you we're a long way from seeing robot marches for civil rights. So what's going on here?
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