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The distinction here is between a robot that is designed to do what its owner wants - including asking "are you sure?" when its owner asks it to do something potentially stupid - and a robot that is designed to thwart its owner's wishes. The former is hard, important work and the latter is a fool's errand and dangerous to boot.
-- Cory Doctorow. "Why it is not possible to regulate robots", The Guardian, Apr 2, 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/apr/02/why-it-is-not-possible-to-regulate-robots
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