May. 27th, 2006

Say a positronic robot, programmed with the standard Three Laws, became aware that a human being had a skin condition -- no, better, something actually dangerous, like an ulcer -- that was aggravated by stress. Would that robot then not be compelled by the First Law to place that human in a minimum-stress, maximum-comfort environment?

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