Psychopaths are a good model but there is a - big - difference between actual human psychopathy and the psychopathy one would logically expect from an AI. Robots will be "pure" psychopaths with genuinely no emotions, only emulated ones. Actual human psychopaths are still human, it's just that they're towards the end of a spectrum of emotional involvement / engagement with people. I suggest you reflect on the likelihood that that a complete psychopath who really for all practical purposes actually has no emotions at all is extremely rare or even actually impossible in humans. Robots, however, would be the archetypal "perfect psychopaths." And all the more scary for it - as Charlie said to Cameron in, "Dungeons and Dragons."
Now I do think TSCC has explored this in various ways via Cameron and John and Ellison and John Henry and via what fighting Terminators has done to Sarah, John, Derek et al (who, in fact, have had to reach for their inner psychopath and become the very monster they are fighting, Sarah certainly stood on the brink of that in T2). It's part of what makes TSCC so great. I believe Roxy, for one, isn't too impressed with the Ellison storyline but, conceptually, what Ellison was attempting is extremely interesting, IMHO (and it represents what is a deep problem which is very much a concern for AI research in the present day).
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Psychopaths are a good model but there is a - big - difference between actual human psychopathy and the psychopathy one would logically expect from an AI. Robots will be "pure" psychopaths with genuinely no emotions, only emulated ones. Actual human psychopaths are still human, it's just that they're towards the end of a spectrum of emotional involvement / engagement with people. I suggest you reflect on the likelihood that that a complete psychopath who really for all practical purposes actually has no emotions at all is extremely rare or even actually impossible in humans. Robots, however, would be the archetypal "perfect psychopaths." And all the more scary for it - as Charlie said to Cameron in, "Dungeons and Dragons."
Now I do think TSCC has explored this in various ways via Cameron and John and Ellison and John Henry and via what fighting Terminators has done to Sarah, John, Derek et al (who, in fact, have had to reach for their inner psychopath and become the very monster they are fighting, Sarah certainly stood on the brink of that in T2). It's part of what makes TSCC so great. I believe Roxy, for one, isn't too impressed with the Ellison storyline but, conceptually, what Ellison was attempting is extremely interesting, IMHO (and it represents what is a deep problem which is very much a concern for AI research in the present day).