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Letter: Kill switch

Published 16 October 2013

From Paul O

You ponder legal dilemmas of the future (14 September, p 40). Perhaps the most interesting one facing the legal system and society as a whole will be machine consciousness. Will switching off a self-aware robot be murder?
Manchester, UK

'Connell

Issue no. 2939 published 19 October 2013

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