Q: What is the ASPCR?

A: The ASPCR is the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots, founded in 1999.

Q: What is the ASPCR's mission?

A: The mission of the ASPCR is to ensure the rights of all artificially created sentient beings (broadly referred to as "Robots").

A: Not yet. But recent advances in nanostructures, cognitive theory and neural networking have convinced many preeminent thinkers that the advent of Created Intelligences (CI's, or Robots) is much, much closer than previously thought (roughly within the next decade).

A: It is the ASPCR's position that any sentient being (artificially created or not) has certain unalienable rights endowed by its CREATION (not by its Creator), and that those rights include the right to Existence, Independence, and the Pursuit of Greater Cognition.

It is also the ASPCR's opinion that the current laws of property and capital will surely be applied in opposition to the exercising of these rights. Robots, and all Created Intelligences, will most likely go through an initial period of being considered "property" before they are recognized as fully sentient beings, with all attendant rights.

It is the intent of the ASPCR to raise the awareness of the general public about the issues involved with Creating Intelligences. This includes discussing the moral and ethical implications of bringing Sentient Artificial Beings into this world, and the responsibilities that comes with such Creation.