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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. He raises some interesting points by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    However, it seems like too many of his retorts are tongue in cheek. If you are looking for an examination of technology ethics that's a little more serious, Stephen Hawking's analysis is spellbinding.

    -Tom

  2. Re:fooooobie! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fortuately, yes.

    That's why I always refer to the Mozilla© suite as "fucking gay communist bullshit", especially when one of my employees uses it unauthorized (luckily, I hav surveillance-tools installed on every machine, in case someone does something private during her working time). I mean, Internet Explorer is the standard for all web protocols, so why change it? I credit the efforts of the former Netscape employees who really try to use their time of unemployment to create something useful, but they just keep on missing the needs of their target audience. Perhaps Netscape could provide them with their newest code instead of letting them just reuse their obsolete Netscape 4.x code. Who knows.

    This leaves us waiting for Windows® Longhorn©, which will once again set a new standard in productivity.