Robot Independence

[artdutra04]

I've never understood why people think just because robots may someday be of the same level of intelligence as humans that they will inherently become evil and develop a want/need to kill humans. If they really would be intelligent, wouldn't you be able to teach them right from wrong as they are learning about the world, in the same way that you teach a child right from wrong?

All indications now point to learning as the path to A.I. instead of hard coding it into the robot, so as they are learning you just teach them morals whats acceptable and not in life. Sure, you may have "insane" robots someday that would want to eradicate humans, but there are a lot of people in this world that want to kill other people.

If you really want to ever prevent anything of the nature of Terminator from happening, we just need to be open-minded about the consciousness of robots in the future. If robots can someday demonstrate that they are conscious, then we shouldn't treat them as machines anymore, but respect them as our peers.