"Asimov Worm" vs. Bastion

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-07-04 04:13am

Let's say some hacker in the Marvel universe created a worm virus and sucessfully uploaded it into the Project Wideawake mainframe. The effects of this virus is that all infected Sentinel Robots become currupted with Asimov Protocols. Now can Bastion/Nimrod reprogram himself/adapt around such a worm? What would the effects of Asimov protocol be on a normal sentinel?

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-07-04 04:18am

I don't know about Nimrod, but for the second it seems to depend on whether the Sentinel computers think that mutants are considered human. Since that seems to be the basis of Asimov's three laws.

generator_g1 · Post by **generator_g1** » 2003-07-04 04:18am

What was the Asimov Protocols again? Was that about the rules that robots cannot kill human beings...?

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-07-04 04:22am

generator_g1 wrote:What was the Asimov Protocols again? Was that about the rules that robots cannot kill human beings...?

If it's the three laws of robotics:

1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.