In our own image
In 1942, the science fiction author Isaac Asimov published his famous Three Laws of Robotics: 1. A robot may not injure humanity or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the 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 Laws. But by 1951, with Cold War tempers running hot, the film The Day the Earth Stood Still took a more straightforward moral standpoint. It features a humanoid alien Klaatu who comes to save the planet’s citizens from themselves, but ends up getting shot for his pains. His robot Gort saves him and they jet off again, but not before delivering the ultimate good cop/bad cop deterrent: embrace peace or we’ll incinerate you. I (sl)
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