Week 7 Discussion Question 1

True AI?

Looking at Isaac Asimov's book with the 3 laws robots live by, which is encoded into the positronic brain of all AI, people feel safe and secure. Though some argue over whether to give them consciousness or not, in his book several Robots began to think and feel as human beings.

Take the movie I, Robot do you think that it could reach that kind of a point that Robots if given sentient consciousness with the engrained Laws that they would kill humans to save the human race as a whole. Much like the Zeroth Law that Asimov coined, saying that Robots could do harm to a few human beings, on the behalf of the many, or the good of humanity as a whole.

With the 3 laws engrained into them, could a Robot that gains sentient state override that engrained nature? Could they stretch out of the shackles that was put on them the day they were created?



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