The Rise and the Power of Artificial Intelligence

Peter Singer: I certainly think it's possible at some states that we will have conscious machines machines with desires perhaps machines who can suffer or enjoy their existence. If that happens then I think they will also have rights and we will need to treat them better than we are treating animals today because we still haven't given them the rights they should have. We're trying to work on to make sure that if they are more intelligent than us their values are aligned with ours so that they will recognize that but it's a risk, he says. The Lazarus heist from the BBC World Service is available in full right now following the twists and turns in the incredible story of the Lazarus group hackers.