IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - October 2016 - 112
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Science
Fiction Is
Full of Bots
That Hurt
People
...But these bots are here now.
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al 9000 kills one astronaut and tries to kill
another in 2001: A Space Odyssey; Ava in Ex Machina expertly manipulates the humans she meets to try
and escape her cell; the T-800 is known as The
Terminator for obvious reasons.
Even more common, though, are those bots that are clever
and sentient enough to have real personality but that are
undone through their naïveté -from Johnny Five in Short
Circuit to Alex Murphy in RoboCop, sci-fi is great at examin-
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ing the dangers of greater intelligence when it's open to
manipulation or lacking concrete moral direction. A smarter
bot, a more powerful bot, is also a bot that has a greater ability to do evil things and, in the process, expose human hubris.
These are all fictional examples, of course, but because
we're starting to see the tech industry shift its focus toward
conversational bots as the future of, well, everything, it may
offer us a useful way to define the power possessed by bots. In
this case, we'll say that a bot is powerful if it could do powerfully evil things if it so wanted.
We've asked a number of experts to suggest what they
think are the most powerful bots around today, in what is
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