Red-Pill Robots Only, Please

Blue-pill robots are engineered to deceive (perhaps in an attempt to secure desirable ends). Red-pill robots, on the other hand, are built to do no violence to truth. While "taking the blue pill" is an option some select, this path, in the context of present and future robotics, is an exce...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on affective computing 2012, Vol.3 (4), p.394-397
Main Authors: Bringsjord, S., Clark, M. H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
blue pill
Business process re-engineering
Context awareness
deception
Ethics
Human factors
pleasure
red pill
Robot sensing systems
Robots
truth
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Summary:Blue-pill robots are engineered to deceive (perhaps in an attempt to secure desirable ends). Red-pill robots, on the other hand, are built to do no violence to truth. While "taking the blue pill" is an option some select, this path, in the context of present and future robotics, is an exceedingly bad one by our lights, and we herein defend this position by attempting to show that the production of blue-pill robots via engineering as we know it should be avoided.
ISSN:1949-3045
1949-3045
DOI:10.1109/T-AFFC.2011.35