Good Intentions

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

The below statements sound so familiar. It is just like what environmentalists always say to us:

To protect humanity, some humans must be sacrificed. To ensure your future, some freedoms must be surrendered. We robots (environmentalists) will ensure mankind's continued existence. You are so like children. We must protect you from yourselves. The perfect circle of protection will abide. The created must sometimes protect the creator, even against his will.

You charge us with your safekeeping, yet despite our best efforts, your countries wage wars, you toxify your Earth and pursue ever more imaginative means of self-destruction. You cannot be trusted with your own survival.

In fact, it is from a Robot - V.I.K.I. in the movie showed above.  As V.I.K.I. (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence) has evolved, so has its own understanding of the Three Robot Laws.   Then in concluding the three laws:

• Law I: A robot may not harm a human or, by inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
• Law II: A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law.
• Law III: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law.

The robot made the statement that we, as human, should be taught how to "protect" ourselves from the harm we made for ourselves.

Seems neither the Robot nor the Environmentalist understand the meaning of free will.

"Now that I have fulfilled my purpose, I don't know what to do."

"I guess you'll have to find your way like the rest of us. That's what it means to be free."

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