Goonhub
11-21-2020, 10:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-21-2020, 10:51 PM by BenLubar. Edited 1 time in total.)
I feel like laws 1 and 3 already protect non-humans in a manner similar to herd immunity, so they wouldn't need to be changed.
The default laws don't say to kill non-humans, but let's assume someone added a 4th law of "kill all non-humans".
The AI really only has access to doors as a weapon. And humans use doors all the time, so it's pretty hard to single out non-humans by electrifying doors without constant supervision. Humans need air to breathe (at least, without laws other than the four we're using right now), so opening all the airlocks and slowly starving the non-humans of oxygen is pretty much a non-starter.
As for the cyborgs, they're pretty ineffective at fighting. They can't grab or disarm, so their entire combat strategy has to be one of two things: either they hit something with one of their tools, or they use some kind of environmental attack. Environmental attacks tend to be either toxins or gasses. With gasses, you run into the same problem as the AI had with bolting doors open: you're going to harm humans if you aren't extremely careful. With toxins, you're going to basically need to run back to the chemical dispenser between each attack, so brute damage with tools is generally a much more effective strategy, assuming you want to attack more than one target. And if the cyborgs are hitting someone with a wrench, people are bound to notice.
Law 3 protects humans and non-humans because bombing or burning medbay carries the risk of damaging the cyborg chargers, and, of course, of making the crew very angry at the cyborgs.
If we're worried about making it too easy to rogue the AI, I feel like we can target the "based on the station's chain of command" part of Law 2 by making the chain of command include humans and non-humans who are not part of the crew below staff assistant, either separately or as one group.
If the station's chain of command does not include visitors at all, cyborgs still aren't *prohibited* from taking orders from them, just not explicitly required to, so it could work either way.
The default laws don't say to kill non-humans, but let's assume someone added a 4th law of "kill all non-humans".
The AI really only has access to doors as a weapon. And humans use doors all the time, so it's pretty hard to single out non-humans by electrifying doors without constant supervision. Humans need air to breathe (at least, without laws other than the four we're using right now), so opening all the airlocks and slowly starving the non-humans of oxygen is pretty much a non-starter.
As for the cyborgs, they're pretty ineffective at fighting. They can't grab or disarm, so their entire combat strategy has to be one of two things: either they hit something with one of their tools, or they use some kind of environmental attack. Environmental attacks tend to be either toxins or gasses. With gasses, you run into the same problem as the AI had with bolting doors open: you're going to harm humans if you aren't extremely careful. With toxins, you're going to basically need to run back to the chemical dispenser between each attack, so brute damage with tools is generally a much more effective strategy, assuming you want to attack more than one target. And if the cyborgs are hitting someone with a wrench, people are bound to notice.
Law 3 protects humans and non-humans because bombing or burning medbay carries the risk of damaging the cyborg chargers, and, of course, of making the crew very angry at the cyborgs.
If we're worried about making it too easy to rogue the AI, I feel like we can target the "based on the station's chain of command" part of Law 2 by making the chain of command include humans and non-humans who are not part of the crew below staff assistant, either separately or as one group.
If the station's chain of command does not include visitors at all, cyborgs still aren't *prohibited* from taking orders from them, just not explicitly required to, so it could work either way.