I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.
Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?
If something robotic can have responsibilities then it should also have rights.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.
Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.
Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.
Most robots don't program themselves.
The Droid I had actually seemed to have free will, which I thought was interesting.
A robot-arm in a factory doesn't decide minute by minute whether to rivet or revolt - it just does the job is has literally been trained to do. It's if and when we build a conscious robot that we may have to worry.
