Saturday, October 17, 2015

They're Only Here to Help! Not Kill!

Asimov’s 3 rules of robotics pretty much tell the story of how humans feel about robots. Which is obviously that they are all going to eventually try to take over the Earth, and kill us all. The laws are centered on the security of humans. However, I feel that it contradicts itself. The laws discuss that the robots should protect their own existence, but when doing that I would assume that we are saying that the robots have some kind of rights. It does not make sense to only have to right to exist, but it should have the right to be free from basically human enslavement. Also, what are the robots going to be protecting themselves from other than humans? Other robots? If so then do robots have an unwritten code of ethics that they abide by? I do not see how that is possible because they do not have a sense of like the “robot race” like we do the human race. So how do we expect them to protect their existence, if they really do not have anyone to protect it from? If it were the case that robots were protecting themselves from the danger of another robot, should we be concerned about humans getting caught in the crossfire of the soon to come robot war? I also think that as technology advances the 3 rules will become obsolete because our relationships with robots will change. We will have robots so intelligent that they will now longer pose any threat to us. Also, after we become more used to them we will have different feelings for them. Although our generation was born into modern technology, the next generation will be born into even more advanced technology. So they will not have the same reservations that our predecessors or that we have about living our lives with them. They will start off as commodities that only maybe people with thousands of dollars to spend on a robot will have. Eventually they will become like any other everyday technology that we have. They will be readily available at prices that average people will be able to afford. Asimov’s 3 laws will have to be revised or just become obsolete because that society will not feel that robots are anything that we have to be afraid of because they are literally only invented to help us.

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