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I love you. I will kill you! I want to make love to you: The evolution of AI in pop culture

Robert Helpmann??
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Does the machine choose the greater good - or avoid a direct action that would deliberately kill the man on the spur?

Indeed, Asimov added the "Zeroth Law" to the previous three in order to explore similar issues. To bring the great writer's work into focus on the developing issue of self driving cars and perhaps who is liable if one should cause harm to a person, I recommend a jaunt through Asimov's "Sally".

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