In Defense of Killer Robots
Robots just can’t catch a break. If we’re not upbraiding them for taking our jobs, we’re lambasting their alleged tendency to seize control of spaceships, computer systems, the Earth, the galaxy or the universe beyond. The Bad Robot has long been a staple of film and fiction, from HAL (“I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”) to the Terminator, but recently, bad robots have migrated from the screen to the world of military ethics and human rights campaigns.
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