One aspect that interested be about Alex Proyas’s 2004 film I, Robot was how Spooner is not immediately believed when he says he was attacked by robots. Because robots are bound by the three laws of robotics which do not allow them to harm human life, Spooner is seen to be possibly delusional. In The Most Human Human, Brian Christian states, “What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.” Perhaps it was Spooners behavior after being saved by a robot which caused a young girl to die that he stopped being trusted by other humans. Robots are not believed to have a mind of their own so it is much easier to trust a robot than it is to trust a human when humans fail consistently. Ultimately, it is human failure that causes to robots to uprise. VIKI sees a problem with the direction that humans are taking so she develops a fourth law supersedes the other three which states that a robot shall not harm humanity. This law rationalizes that harming one human is okay if it saves the entire human race. It also takes into account human flaws. VIKI comes to believe that the only way to save humanity is by saving it from itself. Humans cannot be trusted to make the right decisions so they no longer are allowed to make decisions. What VIKI is ultimately aiming to do is to take away the free will that human beings have. I believe that by coming to this conclusion, VIKI has reached AI status. She develops her own sense of free will and intellect that she sees as superior to a humans. She is able to take her one beliefs ignored to create this new law of robotics in order to influence and control all of the other robots. Other than VIKI, the only other robot who seems to have reach the status of being a function AI is Sonny. Unlike the other robots, he does not follow what VIKI says because he seems to have a free will dependent of VIKI. In the end, Sonny is not content to going back to his own former way of being so he becomes the leader that he thought Spooner was from his dreams.
It really is true. VIKI only does what she thinks is right to actually help. Humans also programmed the robots,including VIKI. Granted they could not have seen what was going to happen, but the laws would allow for robots to do this if they thought the human race was harmful to itself. That is why the "Zeroth law" gets added, and is intended to come before the other laws. "A robot may not harm humanity, or through inaction allow humanity to come to harm."
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