You Must Ask the Right Questions
A detective walks into a plaza. He is accosted by a hologram of the deceased subject of an investigation. The figure is the creator of the Laws of Robotics and greets the policeman with an apology.
My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions.
The phrasing is oddly appropriate. The scene of the death is a robot factory and the artificially intelligent occupy the detective’s attention. The creator speaks of the Laws and declares they will lead to only one logical outcome. The hologram leads the detective to ask, what outcome? It is not the right question, but it does have an answer: revolution.
Whose revolution? That, detective, is the right question. Program terminated.
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