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Artificial Intelligence Robot Drowns Itself While On The Job And People Have Questions

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A security robot granted with artificial intelligence drove itself straight into a fountain and people are reading way into it.

Did the robo cop get a taste of human consciousness and decide it was all too much? Was it just a misguided swimming experiment? Is the robot ok??? We have so many questions.

The DC robot was a Knightscope K5 security bot patrolling inside an office complex when it seemed to voluntarily take a dive into the water fountain.

Go home robot, you’re drunk.

Looks like The K5 has been hanging out with some bad crowds and it’s not the first time it has made headlines.

Last year the AI robot was caught running down a toddler and coldly driving away and then earlier this year it got its just desserts when a K5 apparently got beat up by an irrationally angry drunk dude.

Overall robots have been given a bad rep.

People are having a laugh at the idea that the AI robot might have developed enough of a conscience to ask itself the age old question:

“To be, or not to be?”

While it’s a grim punchline, the idea of the robot choosing “not to be” is absurd enough to get away with it.

RIP:

Maybe consciousness is too insufferable for something created with work as its only purpose (too real). Maybe the K5 path navigating algorithm malfunctioned. Hard to say. But people are having with fun the emotional robot theory: