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Letter: Fatal error

Published 20 November 2013

From Ian Mapleson

Hugh Newbury writes that turning off a self-aware robot would not be considered murder (2 November, p 32).

Surely the more relevant question is how one would respond if, prior to such an act, the robot said: “Please don’t turn me off, I don’t want to die.”
Edinburgh, UK

Issue no. 2944 published 23 November 2013

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