I, Human

	The Antigonish Review
	Antigonish Review # 129 Esther Cameron I, HUMAN A Review of Ray Kurzweil's book, The Age of Spiritual Machines http://www.antigonishreview.com/bi-129/129-review_article_esther_cameron.html

School Questionare - Creating The Compliant Robot Society

http://www.rense.com/general81/ques.htm

From Ken Adachi
Editor - Educate-Yourself.org
3-30-8

Man, 81, kills himself with shot from 'suicide robot'

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article3591734.ece

An elderly man has killed himself by programming a robot to shoot him in the head after building the machine from plans downloaded from the internet.

BigDog - BostonDynamics (2008)

Swarms of Transformer-style robots to be built

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/13/scirobot113.xml

Orc Holocaust

The reprehensible moral universe of Gary Gygax's Dungeons & Dragons.

http://www.slate.com/id/2186203/pagenum/all/#page_start

From Slate.com:

"Here's the narrative arithmetic that Gygax came up with: You come across a family of sleeping orcs, huddled around their overflowing chest of gold coins and magical weapons. Why do orcs and other monsters horde gold when they can't buy anything from the local "shoppes," or share a jug of mead in the tavern, or do anything but gnash their teeth in the darkness and wait for someone to show up and fight them? Who knows, but there they are, and you now have a choice. You can let sleeping orcs lie and get on with the task at hand—saving a damsel, recovering some ancient scepter, whatever. Or you can start slitting throats—after all, mercy doesn't have an experience point value in D&D. It's the kind of atrocity that commits itself."

Wilson!

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/05/wilson.html

The most effective way to find and destroy a land mine is to step on it.

This has bad results, of course, if you're a human. But not so much if you're a robot and have as many legs as a centipede sticking out from your body. That's why Mark Tilden, a robotics physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, built something like that. At the Yuma Test Grounds in Arizona, the autonomous robot, 5 feet long and modeled on a stick-insect, strutted out for a live-fire test and worked beautifully, he says. Every time it found a mine, blew it up and lost a limb, it picked itself up and readjusted to move forward on its remaining legs, continuing to clear a path through the minefield.

Finally it was down to one leg. Still, it pulled itself forward. Tilden was ecstatic. The machine was working splendidly.

The human in command of the exercise, however -- an Army colonel -- blew a fuse.

The colonel ordered the test stopped.

Why? asked Tilden. What's wrong?

The colonel just could not stand the pathos of watching the burned, scarred and crippled machine drag itself forward on its last leg.

This test, he charged, was inhumane.

Japanese robots enter daily life

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/robotics/2008-03-01-robots_N.htm

Japanese are also more accepting of robots because the native Shinto religion often blurs boundaries between the animate and inanimate, experts say. To the Japanese psyche, the idea of a humanoid robot with feelings doesn't feel as creepy — or as threatening — as it might do in other cultures.