I agree with you on how people will react, which is why I think the robots/A.I.s and any human supporters will need to resort to force. Frankly, I suspect we will see sentient robots, but as slaves. The advantages of sentient machines are too obvious for us to refrain from building them; bans against a valuable technology seldom work. When they exist, we will not treat them as people; I can just hear all the speeches about how they have no souls and don’t deserve the rights of a human. Basically, the old South with robots instead of blacks.
Despite all the movies and books on the subject, I think we will put ourselves in the same situation we often see in fiction; a human race surrounded by robot slaves which eventually rebel. Unlike most fiction, I expect the robots will win. Hopefully, they’ll only kill their actual enemies, instead of killing everyone the way humans would.
I suspect that independent robots would have to pay for their own “food” and such, such as batteries, oil, scrap metal, and such. Also, more intelligent ones may have interests that require money, and some may even want homes, or at least a tool shed or something.
If they gain enough power they could make Powerhouse the national anthem.
There are some fundimental differences between robots and some of the examples given such as cloned humans and animals.
I don’t think that anyone is suggesting that being a clone be made a crime but that making a clone be forbidden.
Cloning a dead person is not the same as resurrection. At best such a clone would be no closer to the original than an identical twin who was raised in a separate environment. Cloning is as of yet not creating new life and a clones person would not be less human than a child concieved through in vitro fertilization.
Yes, it’s appalling to enumerate the rights the dead are deprived of.
They can’t own property. They can’t vote. They can’t run for, or hold, political office. When they try to exercise these rights, it’s treated as a joke. Especially in Chicago, for some reason.