17 May
2001
17 May
'01
7:58 p.m.
Jacqui asked:
If Orac had been given the choice in the so-named episode would it have preferred to go with Servalan or with Blake? Orac shows enough understanding (as distinct from awareness) to make a reasoned choice.
POV Avon, Orac is "just a machine"--in other words, doesn't even qualify for his slimline view of human rights--but shouldn't have Blake been worried about the freedom of the honest AI to think and speak?
-(Y)