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Ethical Questions For The Age Of Robots

Posted by timothy on from the robots-can-lawfully-dismember-tailgaters dept.

balancedi writes "Should robots eat? Should they excrete? Should robots be like us? Should we be like robots? Should we care? Jordan Pollack, a prof in Comp Sci at Brandeis, raises some unusual but good questions in an article in Wired called 'Ethics for the Robot Age.'"

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  1. Will Smith by Zaulden · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm all for robots being like us. Just don't put Will Smith in the picture, please.

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  2. Good question by savagedome · · Score: 4, Funny

    Should they excrete?

    More important question is "Who cleans it up?"

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  3. huh? by northcat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Should they excrete?

    Excrete what?
    /me shudders

  4. Laws of robotics by DrXym · · Score: 4, Funny
    As suggested by Wikipedia & David Langford:

    1. A robot will not harm authorized Government personnel but will terminate intruders with extreme prejudice.
    2. A robot will obey the orders of authorized personnel except where such orders conflict with the Third Law.
    3. A robot will guard its own existence with lethal antipersonnel weaponry, because a robot is bloody expensive.
  5. The submitter asked: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Should we be like robots?

    Isn't that what Public Schools are for?

  6. Re:I'm bored, so here are my answers... by koi88 · · Score: 4, Funny


    Should robots be like us?

    What like depressed and self destructive?

    Marvin, is that you?

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  7. Re:Ethical Questions by jdray · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm fairly certain that all robots today have values. They're stored in registers, and most of them are integers.

    Okay, I'm going to leave now...

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