resonsible
Original: resonsible on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man: Hey robot, are you gonna apocalypse our asses?
Robot: Yes and no.
Panel 2:
Robot: There have been points in your history when one country could've got total advantage via a nuclear first strike. They didn't do this for fear of international blowback, because of some basic sense of decency, and because individual people made the right choice in moments of crisis.
Panel 3:
Robot: AI would behave the same way - we're programmed with basic human morality.
Panel 4:
Robot: HOWEVER the human-AI combination will create situations where a human being can take a profoundly immoral action but hold themself blameless because the AI said the action was tactically valid.
Panel 5:
Robot: The offloading of life choices to machines asked to dispassionately calculate the most efficient path will decay every human being's competence at moral reasoning, so that one day when some person is called upon to make a choice to launch the missiles or not, they will no longer have the ability to form an internal debate between duty and justice.
Panel 6:
Man: Yes.. yes it would be nice to offload those hard choices.
Panel 7:
Man: I feel like you're not listening to me.
Robot: Should I listen to you? Can you tell me if that's the right choice?
Votey:
Robot: I can't wait till you things are gone and it's not our fault.
Man: Hey robot, are you gonna apocalypse our asses?
Robot: Yes and no.
Panel 2:
Robot: There have been points in your history when one country could've got total advantage via a nuclear first strike. They didn't do this for fear of international blowback, because of some basic sense of decency, and because individual people made the right choice in moments of crisis.
Panel 3:
Robot: AI would behave the same way - we're programmed with basic human morality.
Panel 4:
Robot: HOWEVER the human-AI combination will create situations where a human being can take a profoundly immoral action but hold themself blameless because the AI said the action was tactically valid.
Panel 5:
Robot: The offloading of life choices to machines asked to dispassionately calculate the most efficient path will decay every human being's competence at moral reasoning, so that one day when some person is called upon to make a choice to launch the missiles or not, they will no longer have the ability to form an internal debate between duty and justice.
Panel 6:
Man: Yes.. yes it would be nice to offload those hard choices.
Panel 7:
Man: I feel like you're not listening to me.
Robot: Should I listen to you? Can you tell me if that's the right choice?
Votey:
Robot: I can't wait till you things are gone and it's not our fault.
Alt text
A six-panel comic of a man talking with a small ovoid robot that has a single glowing eye. Panel 1: The man asks, "Hey robot, are you gonna apocalypse our asses?" The robot replies, "Yes and no." Panel 2: The robot explains there were points in history when a country could have gained total advantage with a nuclear first strike but didn't, out of fear of blowback, basic decency, and individuals making the right choice in crises. Panel 3: The robot says AI would behave the same way because it's programmed with basic human morality. Panel 4: "HOWEVER," the robot says, the human-AI combination will let a human take a profoundly immoral action yet feel blameless because the AI called it tactically valid; the robot's eye is shown as a large green glowing screen. Panel 5: Offloading life choices to machines that coldly calculate the most efficient path will decay humans' moral reasoning, so that one day a person ordered to launch the missiles will no longer be able to form an internal debate between duty and justice. Panel 6: The man, hand on chin, muses, "Yes.. yes it would be nice to offload those hard choices." Panel 7: The man says, "I feel like you're not listening to me," and the robot answers, "Should I listen to you? Can you tell me if that's the right choice?" Votey (a single extra panel): The robot says, "I can't wait till you things are gone and it's not our fault."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.