Do you remember listening as HAL spoke his dying words in the movie 2001; A Space Odyssey? The machine knew he was dying. He could feel it.
“Attorney Dr. Martine Rothblatt filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent a corporation from disconnecting an intelligent computer in a mock trial at the International Bar Association conference in San Francisco, Sept. 16, 2003. The issue could arise in a real court within the next few decades, as computers achieve or exceed the information processing capability of the human mind and the boundary between human and machine becomes increasingly blurred.”
The trial was videotaped and is available via webcast. Session One explains why the International Bar Association is interested in this topic, the participants are introduced to the audience and Dr. Martine Rothblatt explains the situation confronting her client and makes her opening arguments. This first portion of the webcast also includes defense attorney Marc N. Bernstein’s initial response. Session Two and Session Three presents questions to council from both the judge and members of the audience.
