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![]() As robots become more sophisticated, and are given the capacity for choosing goals and working to meet them, you may want a way to make sure a robot does what you want.
For an illustrative tale on the subject of computers that do what they want, see the chirpsithra supercomputer, from a great short story by Larry Niven.
Compare to the android safety mechanism from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968) by Philip K. Dick. Comment/Join this discussion ( 1 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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