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The Onion: Are We Giving Robots Too Much Power?

by Keith Kleiner January 23rd, 2009 | Comments (3)

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    if they ever do gain human like learning and such to ensure they don’t turn against us just treat them right. lol. it may be true we are giving too much power to the programmer though currently. good reason to make the robot software open source in future so we can see what they are running and that it doesn’t have code to eat human skin when it receives a signal lol.

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    if they ever do gain human like learning and such to ensure they don’t turn against us just treat them right. lol. it may be true we are giving too much power to the programmer though currently. good reason to make the robot software open source in future so we can see what they are running and that it doesn’t have code to eat human skin when it receives a signal lol.

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    This is great!

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