Solve : The Case of the Killer Robot?

1.	Solve : The Case of the Killer Robot?
Answer» I sure love the old Looney Tune Cartoons. You should add a poll for our buddy.They USE this case for ethics class in computing / computer science program. I think Killer Robots obviously would not be good, but would be so cool to see QUOTE from: markk on February 23, 2009, 03:52:56 AM I think Killer Robots obviously would not be good, but would be so cool to see Watch Terminator 3Killer Robot? Well, I think it's amazing!Killer Robots!Quote from: reddevilggg on February 23, 2009, 04:55:35 AM Quote from: markk on February 23, 2009, 03:52:56 AM I think Killer Robots obviously would not be good, but would be so cool to see Watch Terminator 3 I PREFER Terminator 2, but the robot in Terminator 3 is more deadly I agree.Case of the Killer Robot Author(s): Richard G. Epstein Richard G. Epstein, Westchester University of Pennsylvania Mike Melamed, CWRU 2000 The Case of the Killer Robot is a detailed SCENARIO that combines elements of software engineering and computer ethics. The scenario consists of fictitious articles that touch on specific issues in software engineering and computer ethics. The articles discuss programs such as programmer psychology, team dynamics, user interfaces, software process models, software testing, the nature of requirements, software theft, and privacy. A major consideration is "when is the software good enough?" The articles in the scenario begin with the indictment for manslaughter of a programmer who wrote faulty code that caused the death of a robot operator. Slowly, over the course of many articles, students are introduced to factors within the software company that also contributed to the accident. They are shown software development as a social process. It is hoped that students will begin to realize the COMPLEXITY of the task of building real-world software and to see some of the ethical issues intertwined in that complexity. This scenario is about 70 pages long and includes some tongue-in-cheek humor. Source: http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/6769.aspxWell, if you're going to start writing about ethics, we're outta here! I shall have to look for that.Quote 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 it 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. All Thanx and praise to Issac Asimov...Isaac Asimov on Bill Moyers World of Ideas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CwUuU6C4pkI think some kind of bot already killed this thread...Even bots can sometimes rescue us from nonsense...I'm still waiting...

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I sure love the old Looney Tune Cartoons.

You should add a poll for our buddy.They USE this case for ethics class in computing / computer science program. I think Killer Robots obviously would not be good, but would be so cool to see
QUOTE from: markk on February 23, 2009, 03:52:56 AM

I think Killer Robots obviously would not be good, but would be so cool to see

Watch Terminator 3Killer Robot?
Well, I think it's amazing!Killer Robots!Quote from: reddevilggg on February 23, 2009, 04:55:35 AM

Quote from: markk on February 23, 2009, 03:52:56 AM
I think Killer Robots obviously would not be good, but would be so cool to see

Watch Terminator 3

I PREFER Terminator 2, but the robot in Terminator 3 is more deadly I agree.Case of the Killer Robot
Author(s): Richard G. Epstein

Richard G. Epstein, Westchester University of Pennsylvania
Mike Melamed, CWRU 2000

The Case of the Killer Robot is a detailed SCENARIO that combines elements of software engineering and computer ethics.

The scenario consists of fictitious articles that touch on specific issues in software engineering and computer ethics. The articles discuss programs such as programmer psychology, team dynamics, user interfaces, software process models, software testing, the nature of requirements, software theft, and privacy. A major consideration is "when is the software good enough?"

The articles in the scenario begin with the indictment for manslaughter of a programmer who wrote faulty code that caused the death of a robot operator. Slowly, over the course of many articles, students are introduced to factors within the software company that also contributed to the accident. They are shown software development as a social process. It is hoped that students will begin to realize the COMPLEXITY of the task of building real-world software and to see some of the ethical issues intertwined in that complexity.

This scenario is about 70 pages long and includes some tongue-in-cheek humor.

Source: http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/6769.aspxWell, if you're going to start writing about ethics, we're outta here!

I shall have to look for that.Quote

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 it 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.

All Thanx and praise to Issac Asimov...Isaac Asimov on Bill Moyers World of Ideas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CwUuU6C4pkI think some kind of bot already killed this thread...Even bots can sometimes rescue us from nonsense...I'm still waiting...

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