1. What constitutes intelligence ?
2. How can we be sure that the android is truly intelligent ?
3. Will we be able to control its actions ?
4. If it is intelligent then it ought to be able to display some
level of judgment and discrimination ; what if its judgments don’t match
ours ? What do we do then ?
5. If an android performs an action that results in the death
of a person is it guilty of murder ? or is its owner ?
6. If a human being injures or destroys an android is he or she
guilty of murder or merely vandalism ?
As androids approach the level of intelligence and capacities of human
beings even more questions come to mind :
1. Can you own one ? Isn’t that slavery ? Why or why not ?
2. Do androids have feelings ?
3. Do androids feel pain ?
4. Will it be legal to turn off an android ? If so when ?
5. How will the development of a functioning, intelligent android
affect religion ?
6. Do they have souls ? Can we tell one way or another ?
7. What would happen if one of them wanted to be a minister
or even the Pope ?
8. Will we let them strike for better working conditions
?
9. How will we draw the line between person and machine ?
10. Will they form their own society ? Will this affect our own
?