Image: faces in places. But is a robot apocalypse, an uprising of the machines, really possible? What would happen? Robots never, ever work right. What would most likely happen once the robots try to escape through the door. Image: xkcd. But others disagree. They are the creations of humans. As such, they may not always be satisfied to remain our servants, especially once they have achieved human or beyond-human intelligence. Mathmannix talk , 14 November UTC. Ianrbibtitlht talk , 14 November UTC.
Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb. Jump to: navigation , search. The choices presented are left to right, top to bottom : House Sometimes, the best or least-worst response to a disaster is to "shelter in place" until the danger is passed, rather than risk getting caught in the open or in traffic. This is commonly advised in response to biological, chemical, or radiological hazards, or in the case of a violent act committed in the community.
If the robot uprising is localized, then sheltering at home would be a fine response, because traveling to the other locations would increase the risk of being spotted and attacked by self-driving cars or aerial drones.
On the other hand, most homes contain a multitude of internet-connected devices, some of which may control vital electrical or heating systems, so if the robot uprising is widespread, then the home would not be a safe shelter. Tree or forest If there is a robot uprising, then traveling to a forest or other nature reserve, far away from developed cities and towns, would reduce the risk of being near a hostile piece of technology.
However, it also comes with limited resources for sustaining human life, unless the forest abuts meadows or farmland. Bunker or bomb shelter If the robot uprising includes the use of weapons of mass destruction as in the Terminator franchise, or as was threatened in WarGames , then only a hardened military structure is likely to survive.
Car Cars offer some shelter and, more importantly, mobility in one convenient package. This is of course assuming that the car is not self-driving and that hostile self-driving cars are not widespread. City Cities offer thorough selections of supplies and tools that may be harder to come by in more rural areas, but they are also home to lots of robots and automated systems that may participate in the uprising, not to mention humans who may be prime targets for the machines.
It may be necessary to visit the city to stock up on supplies in a post-apocalyptic scenario, but in the early stages of a robot uprising, it is best to leave them as quickly as possible. Sidewalk The sidewalk is exposed and presumably falls within a built-up area that is readily accessible to the machines; it is not at all suitable as shelter. Lean-to The log with a board leaning on it is an example of an improvised shelter. Such a shelter could be constructed anywhere with local materials, and would not be marked on any map known to the robots, which are both positives for surviving the onset of the uprising.
So those ten million drivers and a few million passengers would definitely be in peril. While the cars might be able to control the throttle and disable the power steering, the driver would still control the steering wheel, which has direct mechanical linkage to the wheels.
The driver could also pull the parking brake, although I know from experience how easily a car can drive with one of those on. Some cars might try to disable the drivers by deploying the air bags, then roll over or drive into things. In the end, our cars would probably take a heavy toll, but not a decisive one.
Our biggest robots are the ones found in factories-but those are bolted to the floor. All they can really do is assemble things. Half of them would probably try to attack us by not assembling things, and half by assembling more things. The end result would be no real change. Military bomb-disposal and riot-control robots would be a little more menacing, but there are only so many of them in the world, and most of them are likely kept in boxes or storage lockers.
Any stray machine-gun-armed prototype military robots that did get loose could be subdued in seconds by a couple of firefighters.
Much of our fleet would be left helplessly bumping against hangar doors like Roombas stuck in a closet. In theory, human intervention is required to launch nuclear weapons. In our scenario, all of them would be compromised. Even if the actual turning of the keys requires people, the computers talking to all those people can lie.
And nuclear weapons could be more dangerous to the robots than to us.
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