Next-gen killbots boast enhanced friendly fire avoidance

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Digital1 @ Oct 8th 2007 6:19PM

I for one welcome our robotic,machine-gun wielding overlords.

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I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Oct 8th 2007 10:34PM

Such robots are a violation of Asmimov's Three Laws of Robotics.

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 to 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.

Although if a fourth law were to be written, it might say "A robot will defend the innocent from evil". But Isaaic Asimov was a fiction writer and like works of fiction, I suppose they should be taken lightly. Or maybe not...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

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david @ Oct 9th 2007 12:32AM

The insurgents who murder innocent people are not human beings so this does not violate Asmimov's Three Laws of Robotics.

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I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Oct 9th 2007 2:11AM

@david

You are right and those animals should not be considered human, not even cavemen..

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