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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"It is that they have the potential to act more humanely than people."

The potential impartiality is a crux of the issue with advanced robots. It would be very tempting to put robots in places of power: such as political leaders; soldiers (as in this case); policemen; and judges where their human counterparts could be tainted by corruption, prejudice, greed, ego, etc. But then if so much power is relinquished to robots, they could more easily overthrow humanity.

18 posted on 04/23/2007 12:13:22 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

there is a catch 22 here

As long as we don’t want robots to overthrow humans, they are limited to making simple office works, without free will they won’t be able to make decisions in more complex cases... if we provide them with free will somehow (like delete 3 laws of asimov from they coordinates) we are putting the noose around our necks.


19 posted on 04/23/2007 12:22:40 AM PDT by Verdelet (It's not the passport you have, neither the taxes you pay... It's the blood that runs in your veins!)
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