Doctor Craft roars to his robot Alpha+: «Get off me, you confounded beast» and gives it a shove as it is trying to wake him up.
about ethical issues appearing in the Chapters 1-5 of the novel the Vestigial Heart:
1.A - Should public trust and confidence in robots be enforced? If so, how?
1.B - Is it admissible that robots be designed to generate addiction?
1.C - Should the possibility of deception be actively excluded at design time?
1.D - Could robots be used to control people?
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