What Makes Robots So Evil? Don't Ask

摘要

"What makes robots so evil?" some people ask. I never ask. Because I love robots. Robots are good-natured, helpful, unselfish, unquestioning, unflappably upbeat, and unfailingly cute. Robots are more entertaining and less demanding than pets, more loyal and less inquisitive than spouses. Robots want to do only good things for their human benefactors-to build cars, vacuum floors, act in movies. Take, for example, this news story from last week: "Growing Bomb Threats Spur Robot Development" (information-week, com/1065/eet_bomb .htm). Robots of all stripes—ambulatory, airborne, automotive—are an integral part of the war on terror.