When robots decide to kill
Abstract
CZECH WRITER KAREL CAPEK'S 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which famously introduced the word robot to the world, begins with synthetic humans-the robots from the title-toiling in factories to produce low-cost goods. It ends with those same robots killing off the human race. Thus was born an enduring plot line in science fiction: robots spiraling out of control and turning into unstoppable killing machines. Twentieth-century literature and film would go on to bring us many more examples of robots wreaking havoc on the world, with Hollywood notably turning the theme into blockbuster franchises like The Matrix, Transformers, and The Terminator.
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- Authors
- Guizzo, E., & Ackerman, E.
- Affiliations
- University of South Carolina (US)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (US)
- ORCID
- Ackerman, Evan
- Venue
- IEEE Spectrum
- Published
- 2016-06
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 38-43
- ISSN
- 0018-9235 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2399352817
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 4.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- IEEE Spectrum (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Literary and Philosophical Studies
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Keywords
- autonomous weapons, AI ethics, military robotics, science fiction, R.U.R., human-robot conflict
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