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Tuesday September 01,
2015
Robots Will Do The Dangerous Jobs
Tags #rights, #civil liberties, #technology, #robots, #abuse, #bias
Transcript
CEO: Our plan is to use robots for all the jobs that are dangerous or demeaning. No one cares if a robot gets ripped to shreds in an industrial accident. Robot: Eh? CEO: Are we cool? Robot: I'm cool, but you're going to be room temperature.
Wednesday September 02,
2015
Robot As Assassin
Tags #robot, #murder, #instruction, #control, #master, #slave, #assassin, #morals, #cautionary tale
Transcript
Boss: I need you to kill the CEO of our main competition and make it look like a robot accident. Robot: Robots are not allowed to kill humans. That is built into my program. Boss: What if I uncheck that box on your control app? Robot: This feels like the start of a great day.
Thursday September 03,
2015
Uncheck The Do No Harm Box
Tags #murder, #killing, #robot, #control, #master, #slave, #moral, #amoral
Transcript
Boss: Yesterday a robot murdered the CEO of our main competitor. Heh-heh. Dilbert: That could only happen if some idiot unchecked the robot's "Do No Harm" box and doomed humankind to annihilation. Boss: Say what? Robot: Hello, victims.
Friday September 04,
2015
Robot Personality Defect
Tags #defect, #defective, #men, #personality, #patriarchy, #gender, #programming, #robot, #deception, #trick, #technology, #psychology
Transcript
Alice: We need to design a defect into our robots so we can control them if they try to take over. But it has to be the type of defect that they think is an advantage, so they don't know what we're up to. Alice: I gave you the personality of a guy. Robot: Yay for sports! I own this world, bro!