Arnold.

Probably not until you can skin it.

otherwise the prols won't fall in line.

putting a human face on subjugation is what it's all about.

coming soon to a future near you.

cannot be defeated!

Bullseye!

...so it doesn't have to get nekkid to time-travel.

Human Arrogance will never fail us. We learned about the atom, and how an atom of U-235 released neutrons when it was split. So human arrogance came up with a bomb. A huge bomb that wipes out entire cities. Then we figured out a way to make it an even bigger bomb, by adding Hydrogen. That was enough to make a bomb that was so large it scared us for a bit. Then we decided we could add another element, and make a neutron bomb, an even more powerful weapon. Human arrogance keeps coming up with things that can wipe us all out, and at no point do we wonder if we should do such a thing.

Warnings of science fiction, who envisioned huge zeppelins that would bomb cities into rubble before the first world war, didn't scare us or stop us from making fleets of bombers during the second world war that turned cities to rubble. That didn't stop us, we bombed the cities again and again making the rubble jump and dance.

So now we're going to make a humanoid robot. It will be awesome, and no it can't aim a weapon yet. But wouldn't it be awesome to have a million of these in storage somewhere ready to dash out and rescue people who are trapped because of a disaster, or ready to fight a war should we be attacked?

Yeah, it would be awesome all right. I've seen this movie. I've read this book, I know how it ends.

Are they cheaper in the long run than a human being? You can bet they'll do cost/benefit analysis on that.

sadly....

We make our machines so much more intelligent than us, we end up handing over the task of running civilization to them. People end up living lives of total idleness. People are little more than pets, indulged by the hyper intelligences that run society. The people are very content, happy to let the machines do the heavy lifting, and spend their days in games, social parties, hobbies, and enjoying life as nigh-immortals.

may harm a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

On edit: good to see that encroaching senility has not yet wiped out my Sci-Fi memories:

Not the movie, the book. In the end, the Thinking Machines were allocating assets and determining production. The Humans were harmed in that they had lost the ability to think for themselves, or to run their own lives. Those who questioned the brilliance of the machines, were harmed by failures. The overproduction of food stuff in one case, a cave in on a canal on the others.

Then there was the power transfer station, the Robots contained the humans in a little room, where they would not be able to interfere with the superior abilities of the androids. Robot means following directions, your RC car for example. Robot is wrong, android would be better.

So yes, even in that story, Humans became dependent upon the Robots, the thinking machines, who decided that by not taking over and controlling the daily activities of man, benignly to be sure, that Humanity would harm itself.

I'm not sure that is doing harm or not, but I'm not in favor of losing control of my own life.

Oh my

That's fail...


That's like saying you got your kid an RC car for Christmas, but it has a wire from the controller to the car LOL-


Robot FAIL

loved your analogy anyway

And make no mistake about it, this is cool tech.

More benign implications.