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Letter: Unplug me

Published 11 December 2013

From Kevin Hayes

Ian Mapleson asks how we should respond if a self-aware robot requests not to be turned off (23 November, p 33). Surely a more thorny moral dilemma lies in store when a self-aware robot asks to be turned off.
Mt Eliza, Victoria, Australia

Issue no. 2947 published 14 December 2013

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