If robots kill people, can they be brought to trial?

[PiratePast40]

According to the headline, the robot killed the man: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/robot-kills-man-volkswagen-plant-germany-32163980. So do we now indict cars, guns, and knives?

To most of us, this is a case of either sloppy writing, or is a bit tongue in cheek. Unfortunately, people like Floyd and Ginny feel this way about guns.

So now - AND I'M JOKING WITH THIS - can we take up a collection to have one of these robots sent to our favorite people?

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[The Heretic]

Robots are not sentient, they have less intelligence than most insects, and they have no rights or standing in the law.

Despite what some "experts" in AI state, AI is a long ways from producing a computer that can think for itself. Even if we do ever get to the point where computers do have real intelligence, there is no reason that anyone would ever program an AI system with emotions that would provide motivation for an AI to intentionally cause harm to a human.

 

[Chee-to]

ROBOT LIVES MATTER.............................

 

[PiratePast40]

......there is no reason that anyone would ever program an AI system with emotions that would provide motivation for an AI to intentionally cause harm to a human.

Yea right

 

[The Heretic]

Yea right

If you want an AI to harm someone, you just tell (program) it to harm someone. Computers only know zeros and ones. If you tell a computer to do something, it will do it (if it has the capacity to to do that thing). Why would you go to the trouble of giving an AI emotions (or the AI equivalent) just so it would do something when it would do it out of simple blind obedience?