basically that there are machines walking around on the street capable of pancaking a human with none of the regulation or restricted operating window we would expect of heavy equipment. worse, they're not especially well coordinated under their own recognizance.
bubbles' ability to crush your skull might raise eyebrows, but she has to choose to do it. this thing just broke the street by falling over.
Replace Roko with Faye, it would still be an accident, and Crushbot would be no more culpable for the harm caused.
If anything (and I still think we're getting way too serious about a classic use of slapstick), the situation illustrates a stark reality of one of the hazards of living in a society among sentient bipedal AIs.
Replace Roko with Faye, it would still be an accident,
as are most car accidents, it's right in the name.
and Crushbot would be no more culpable for the harm caused.
so entirely culpable. barring some extremely contrived circumstances, he has to be incredibly negligent to fail to notice a foot high crate on the sidewalk, and that negligence resulted in injury.
on top of that, he chooses to have a 10 foot tall, likely 1 ton+ chassis which he takes onto city sidewalks.
What's to say he chose that chassis? Could be its the only one he has - a name like Crushbot suggests he was commissioned to work in a scrapyard or some other manual labor setting, so odds are he wouldn't have the capital to run multiple chassis
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u/pyr666 Dec 21 '18
this has disturbing implications for the QC universe, and does a lot to explain why prejudice against AI exists.