According to dictionary.com humanity is "the quality or condition of being human, human nature. It also states it as the quality of being humane; kindness; benevolence." Humans are also defined as being particularly adept at utilizing systems of communication for self-expression, the exchange of ideas, and organization.
With the rapid growth of artificial intelligence we are creating human like machines that can not only communicate but can even develop emotions. But does that mean that they have humanity? In movies such like IRobot the robot feels remorse for the death of his creater, and all the robots that are thrown into bins and left for trash show sig
ns of depression as well as care for one another when in battle. Emotion is a large part of humanity, so does that mean that these man made machines have humanity?Not only do things such as robots show humanity, but animals do as well. But that does not make them human, so what is the deciding factor? Do we have to be able to communicate and speak a language as well as a beating heart to be human? Where do we draw the line between human and machine?
Aren't dictionaries supposed to try to use words other than the root word of the word to generate definitions? Perhaps you ought to just ask yourself what designates human?
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