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The Responsibilities We Give Robots

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  Prompt 1: Are there particular jobs or tasks that you think it’d be unethical to require robots to do?      I think it’s clear that robots are becoming more advanced every year, with them being able to perform more tasks that we humans can do as the days go on. Giving robots the job of performing dangerous tasks in place of humans can make our lives safer and easier every day. However, this does not automatically give the robots permission to act out these tasks if they’re not required to do so. Tasks that involve emotions, human life, and responsibilities should remain in the hands of humans. One example that I can think of off the top of my head would be military and combat. It raises many moral and ethical questions, like whether robots should be sent into dangerous combat situations, or if a robot should decide whether a person lives or dies. If a robot has the authority to make these decisions, it raises questions about responsibilities. If the robot were to...
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Strange Life, Strange World

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  \ Today marks July 14, 2086, and I am soon to land on the planet Zemlox. The landscape looks much different than Earth’s, as they’re no visible bodies of water from above, and no signs of wildlife on the ground. The planet looks mostly dead to me. I reached the ground, noticing cracks everywhere I stepped, and a barren wasteland in the distance is all I can tell. From what I can tell so far, there are no visible signs of life. The surface is covered with abandoned structures, and rusty caves that show signs of an old civilization.  The sun that this planet orbits around gives off a strange radiation; the radars in my astronaut suit signaling to me that life on the land was no longer habitable, but signs of life were shown underground. This made me curious to check what was there. I stumbled across the land until I reached one of the caves that gave way under the land. The species I found was nothing short of what we humans describe on Earth as ‘aliens’. They had an abnormal ...
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