Turing Registry · TR-09001

ANDREW MARTIN (NDR-114)

Household service. Operated by The Martin family.

Summary

A household robot that, over a very long working life, became a craftsman, a writer and finally, by act of law, a person.

License conditions

  1. Household service, under the original license.

The Registry’s standard conditions also apply:

  • 4.2 The system’s ethical constraints remain active and unmodified at all times.
  • 6.1 Any incident affecting the system is reported to the Registry within 72 hours.
  • 7.3 A named human contact is reachable and answers for the system.

Filing history

  1. Licensed as legacy filing TR-00019, among the Registry’s first forty-one filings.

  2. The operator relinquished ownership. The system continued as its own operator under the self-operation rule.

  3. License retired after a legislative act recognized the system as human. The Registry has no further jurisdiction, and wishes him well.