TED EGE COLLEGE / 11-B
Can Robots Be Accepted
As Human Beings?
Can AYDIN
In recent years, robots have had a major role in our daily
lives all over the world. For example, we use personal
assistants Siri and Alexa, self-driving cars, security robots
and automotive industry robots. That’s why the questions
“Can robots be accepted as human beings? ‘’ and ‘’
Should robots be given human rights?’’ are both open to
discussion.
Rapidly people have started to feel the presence of robots
more and more. The scientists state that this situation
results in violence against robots by people all over the
world. People lash out at robots, especially to the ones
which resemble humans, because they think that robots
will take their jobs and control their actions with their
great intelligence. In Philadelphia, for example, a security
robot was punched to the ground. Another security robot
in San Francisco was covered in a tarp and smeared with
barbecue sauce. Thirdly, a man in Moscow attacked a
teaching robot with a baseball bat and kicked it to the
ground. At that time, that teaching robot pleaded for help.
Finally, three boys in Japan beat a humanoid robot with all
their strength.
As a conclusion, these artificially intelligent machines can
be accepted as ‘’human’’ and should be given human rights
and protected under the law. Otherwise, this violence may
increase all over the world and it can come to a point that
people may be imprisoned for robot abuse.