The concept of Artificial Intelligence or AI has been popular in Science Fiction since 1872. Asimov attempted to acclimate the public to robotic intelligence with his famous ″Three Laws of Robotics,″ while Dick uses the idea of the ′replicant′ to drive the conflict between man and machine in a dystopian framework. Discuss whether or not you believe that artificial intelligence, either computers or robots, can ever be constructed as ethical agents? Use the supplementary reading assigned to help you frame your argument.
