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Francis Quinn approaches Calvin and Lanning to try to help him prove that his political opponent, Stephen Byerley, is a robot. Calvin explains here why that is impossible. If Byerley does not follow the Three Laws, he is not a robot, but if he does follow the Three Laws, they cannot distinguish between a robot and a good person. They cite several ways in which Byerley does uphold the Three Laws, thus making it impossible to tell.
But Calvin’s statement here gets at more than Byerley’s case specifically: Calvin implies that all robots, ethically speaking, are on a par with…