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"THE ROBOTS ARE COMING! GIVE US MONEY TO SET UP RULES AGAINST THEM!!!"]]>Jun 18th 2006 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/
"THE ROBOTS ARE COMING! GIVE US MONEY TO SET UP RULES AGAINST THEM!!!"]]>Jun 18th 2006 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/
Dad: Son, don't you want to go play with you friends?
Son: No, I'll just wanna stay here and make out with my Marilyn Monrobot.
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its used in situations where the hero is saved by unlikely circumstance, eg the alien ship in life of brian.

you sir, are an idiot]]>Jun 18th 2006 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/Jun 18th 2006 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/
Deus Ex Machina means "God from the Machine."

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

Repete your final statement.
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"Deus ex machina" can also mean "God from the machine."

You, sir, need to take Latin again.]]>Jun 18th 2006 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina

Youre half right devians. It means literally "god from the machine," though your interpretation of the theater definition is faily accurate.

Lets not be so hasty with the idiot label, shall we?]]>Jun 18th 2006 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/
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Billy's Mom: [in movie] Billy, do you want to walk your dog?

Billy: [in movie] No thanks, Mom. I'd rather make out with my Monroe-bot.

[Enter his dad.]

Billy's Dad: [in movie] Billy, do want to get a paper route and earn some extra cash?

Billy: [in movie] No thanks, Dad. I'd rather make out with my Monroe-bot.

[The girl from the cafe, Mavis, walks in.]

Mavis: [in movie] Billy, do you want to come over tonight? We can make out together.

Billy: [in movie] Gee, Mavis, your house is across the street. That's an awfully long way to go for making out.

Narrator: [in movie] Did you notice what went wrong in that scene? Ordinarily, Billy would work hard to make money from his paper route. Then he'd use the money to buy dinner for Mavis, thus earning the slim chance to perform the reproductive act. But in a world where teens can date robots, why should he bother? Why should anyone bother? Let's take a look at Billy's planet a year later. [The scene changes and a foam hand rolls across an empty football field.] Where are all the football stars? [The foam hand drifts across an empty laboratory.] And where are the biochemists? [The scene changes to a split screen of human and robot couples making out on beds.] They're trapped! Trapped in a soft, vice-like grip of robot lips. All civilisation was just an effort to impress the opposite sex ... and sometimes the same sex. Now, let's skip forward 80 years into the future. Where is Billy?

[The scene changes to a post-apocalyptic world. Billy is an aged man but still with his Monroe-bot and still making out with her.]

Billy: [in movie] Farewell!

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I'd be interested to learn whether the guide suggests anything about the "rights" of robots. If these robots are truly self-aware, then it seems immoral to enslave (that is, to own) them.]]>Jun 18th 2006 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/
Neal Saferstein ]]>Jun 18th 2006 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/Jun 19th 2006 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/Jun 19th 2006 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/Jun 19th 2006 2:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/Jun 19th 2006 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chobits]]>Jun 19th 2006 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/Jun 19th 2006 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/Jun 19th 2006 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/
PEToR
(the people for the ethical treament of robots)]]>Jun 19th 2006 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/^_^]]>Jun 19th 2006 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/
How can we hold our armies accountable for their actions if their actions are not the work of human hands?

The purpose of the army is to deflect violence from the civilian to the solder. Soldiers are supposed to be flesh and blood targets, otherwise our enemies will be dissuaded from killing them, and instead will focus on our civilians.]]>Jun 19th 2006 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/
We already create an abundance of offspring’s that we infuse, permeate and hand down our poisons to (yes little Jimmy gets poisoned every time you clutch his hand tightly as a person that looks “different” than you walks by). And now we think we can build a “truly intelligent” Robocop, Robonanny, Robogardner?! WE FIRST NEED TO ELIMINATE THE EVIL THAT MEN DO!]]>Jun 19th 2006 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/Jun 19th 2006 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/guide-to-robot-ethics-set-for-publication/
Of course, those of us concerned about the coming age of robotics may well be mistaken about the scope and character of the risks. Human predictions usually are mistaken, after all.

However, commentators inclined to dismiss the risks may wish to pause and think back to earlier technologies where the technological potentials and social/ environmental risks were underestimated: television, automobiles, synthetic chemicals, ... quite a list.

Actually catalyzing global action often requires 20-50 years (e.g., asbestos, tobacco, ozone depletion, carbon dioxide, hybrid cars). So it is not too early to envision strategies of the sort in this statement about ethics and robotics.

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www.roboethics.org
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