Forget robot rights, use them for public safety

[carlg1212]

I'm leary of robots. They will eventually take over, Terminator-style.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2064170,00.html
Scientists have criticised a government report which advocated a debate on granting rights to super-intelligent robots in the future as "a distraction". They say the public should instead be consulted over the use of robots by the military and police, as carers for the elderly and as sex toys.


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0610_050610_robot.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/images/050610_robot.jpg

[john white]

Disaster just waiting to happen

The solution to war isnt getting machines to kill people for us: robot soldiers can only make War imesurably worse, even without Skynet taking over

Sure as cause leads to effect, we end up 10,000 years in the future fighting the Butlerian Jihad

("thou shalt not make a machine that thinks")

[oneofmany]

Disaster just waiting to happen

The solution to war isnt getting machines to kill people for us: robot soldiers can only make War imesurably worse, even without Skynet taking over

Sure as cause leads to effect, we end up 10,000 years in the future fighting the Butlerian Jihad

("thou shalt not make a machine that thinks")Well said. Frank Herbert knew a thing or two about human idiosyncrasies, and to produce thinking feeling robots and to give them rights is a pending disaster waiting to happen.

[heretic]

http://www.patandkat.com/pat/weblog/images/cheney-robot-sm.jpg

[pollock]

Aaargh, I find robots beyond creepy, if I get old and disabled and they try to have one of those "taking care" of me, Ill go nuts!

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[i am all i am]

Disaster just waiting to happen

The solution to war isnt getting machines to kill people for us: robot soldiers can only make War imesurably worse, even without Skynet taking over

Sure as cause leads to effect, we end up 10,000 years in the future fighting the Butlerian Jihad

("thou shalt not make a machine that thinks")

G'day John White.

Terminology of the Imperium

Jihad, Butlerian (see also great revolt) - the crusade against computers, thinking machines, and concious robots begun in 201 B.G. and concluded in 108 B.G. Its chief commandment remains in the O.C. Bible as "Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

- The Great Dune Trilogy, complete and unabridged, by Frank Herbert.

Dune is a brilliant series, very insightful.

With Love.