Week 7 Discussion Question 2

Digression of the Human Race?

Take Asimov's 3 Laws for Robotic's:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Levinson comments that Robot's could and can be enslaved by the Human race because of the Law's of Robotics

Now if we create an AI that can think freely as we do, that can walk, talk and move like us, making the only difference between the two is one is of flesh and blood were the other is made up of silicon plastics and metals. In a sense we are playing God by creating this AI would we be as bad as our ancestors that had enslaved other human societies? Or do you think that because Robot's do not have a soul making them inferior to us and thus jusitifying the means that they would be enslaved to us?



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