Emily Lake
Might be a replicant
- Joined
- Jul 7, 2014
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- Agenderist
- Basic Beliefs
- Atheist
Not intentionally malign, but yes. Caves of Steel and Naked Sun both relied on robots as unwitting accomplices to murder - things that wouldn't have happened had those robots actually had full cognitive function and sapience. It's one of the things that set Giskard and Daneel apart from other robots. Daneel's positronic brain, paired with a body that was extremely sophisticated (enough so to pass as human) allowed for much more complex extrapolative thinking, including the weighing of long-term consequences. Paired with Giskard's "mutation" of being able to read emotions (let's just go ahead and recognize that as empathy) which he passed on to Daneel, that's what allowed the development of the zeroth law.Huh? Am I missing something here? Where Asimov's robots malign somewhere?I was just going to say the same thing. I Robot, the Terminator franchise, The Matrix. The only one I can think of that was successful was The Day The Earth Stood Still. And that one the AI's responsibility was extremely limited.I think I saw this in a movie once. It doesn't end well. Remember, any AI will be programmed by humans, so....
I'm just gonna say bad idea.
Even with Asimov's laws of robotics, humanity only flourished throughout the galaxy by eliminating thinking robots. Even with those laws in place, robots did more harm than good to humanity, and Daneel recognized that damage and worked behind the scenes through Empire and Foundation to protect humanity from the risk of artificial intelligence.