The Future is Now

Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 
 
2. A robot must obey orders given by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 
 
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
 

 Then we have the Prime Directives ( from Robocop )
  1. "Serve the public trust"
  2. "Protect the innocent"
  3. "Uphold the law"
  4. "Any attempt to arrest a senior officer of OCP results in shutdown" (Listed as [Classified] in the initial activation)
 
 
we keep on inventing machines to cure our menial job tasks, loneliness. So falling in love with machines and robots will be completely normal. HER, directed by Spike Jonze in 2013 is one damn sad needle.
 
 
How we can link our neuro system with AI? Look no further. A sleeper 2108 hit, written and directed by Leigh Whannell


Look further, we have these machines becoming sentient, send to war or re-programmed to hunt their own tribes. Just like in Blade Runner or in Alex Garland's seductive 2014 Ex-Machina.
 
I've seen things... seen things you little people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium... I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments... they'll be gone.
 

Or we have Terminator slowly turning into a surrogate father to John Connor in James Cameron seminal 1992 T2- Judgement Day.



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