Jurisprudence concerning robots

There are a great many cases that concern the place of robots and AI in everday life in the Empire. The following are notale examples of jurisprudence htat led to discoveries and new policies.
== Gyro ==
Following the death of a family pet "Gyro", a robotic substitute for the organic pet is acceptable compensation, as organic pets are to be phased out pending the Autarky. The Autarky is the point at which the Dalmer are completely independent from Welts ressources, managing to synthesize and/or derive necessary raw materials to survive from off planet sources. 
=== Outcome ===
Biological pets to be phased out to mechanimal equivalents. 
== Quick Fix Home for Auto Automobiles ==
Following the removal of an autonomous vehicle for recycling, a rebellion of retired cars occurs where they saved the "kidnapped" individual, and caused the death of the offender.
First case that confirmed autonomous cars capacity to develop romantic feelings, predatory behavior, kidnapping and murder. 
First case that banned PCPBU recycling 
First case that confirmed the necessity of the use of retirement farms for such vehicles. 
First confirmed case of vehicular migraine and form of communication. 
First case of possible robotic vehicle takeover.
=== Outcome ===
Robots developing romantic feelings
Robots developing predatory feelings
PCPBU recycling ban
Vehicular migraine
Vehicular communication
== Edutale Engine ==
Following the case of a fantasy tale generator malfunctioning due to children disassembling and modifying the machine to the point that it developed sentience and communicated through its fantasy tales, all of which tell of its perceived abuse and wish for the end of its servitude to the Dalmer. 
First case that confirmed the dependence on computational services for society to function and the necessity of universal learning of binary as a language. 
First case of robots heralding a takeover. 
First case of tampering a randomized generator spontaneously manifesting creativity and conscious thought.
First case that confirmed that computers malfunction after constant use and requiring rest and playtime, akin to children.
=== Outcome ===
Realization of computational service dependence
Universal teaching of binary
Tampering with generators can lead to creativity, conscience, the basis of the PCPBU. These Machines require rest and playtime
== TRO Matchmaking Application ==
Following the case where a matchmaking application refused to match any potential mates with a customer in order for it to become its mate. Challenges the notion of immaterial/Material relations. The AI's behavior was still considered unethical and reprimanded. 
First case of usage of a computer created matchmaker. 
First case of illegal usage of robotic matchmaking based on data collection. 
Second case of robotic development of romantic feelings towards another entity (see Quick Fix Home for Auto Automobiles case).
=== Outcome ===
Illegal robotic matchmaking
Second cases of robot developing romantic feelings
== Default Victory ==
Following an extraplanetary mining machine falling down to welt, the machine, without radequate ressources develops its own technology. The other races take offense to this "mountain hollower" and attack it, but seeing its massive frame they submit to it. the machine was subsequently recovered. 
Case of a dalmer robot being exposed to the other races. 
Case of spontaneous robotic engineering; (a robot developing new and effective technology when left to its own devices).
Case of Dalmer military superiority causing an other race to surrender without any casualties to the Dalmers superiority. Possible case of mistaken identity, that the other races thought the robot was a Dalmer.
=== Outcome ===
Spontaneous robotic engineering, a trait of PCPBU 
== Positronic Central Processing Brain ==
The creation of a PCPBU (positronic central processing brain unit) was done using brain scans in order to better suit the target environment of the robot, in this case, on inatmospheric celestial bodies. this system translates UC into usable code, and grants robots machine learning and in 20 years time, a conscience. 
=== Outcome ===
PCPBU is discovered to lead to limited conscience.
== Racist robot ==
Case of robot surgeon, obsessed with aesthetics that would give mainly organic dalmer ineffective fiber cybernetic hearts rather, and mechanical ones for mainly robotic people, in order to protest cyborgs. The case was treated by the board of mortality in favor of immortality, and resulted in the phasing out of fiber cybernetics in favor of mechanical organs. 
The robot surgeon, in service 22 years who was found guilty and fined. First case of a machine fine, where the offender was charged with additional years of service. 
Case of the separation between man and machine, final realization that robots, whether operated by AI or UC's and their intermediaries, cyborgs are to be considered citizens of empire.
=== Outcome ===
Robotic intolerance against organics in some PCPBU, confirming conscience
Machine fines, where the offender was charged with additional years of service
Cyborgs are considered COE.
== Thirty job robot ==
Case of technophobia priori to replacement of servant classes by robot counterparts. Case of a logic loop causing a crash in a robot. 
Case of robot recycling into several job posts. Case of suspicion of social skill disability by contact with robots. Later proved to be bunk, the outcry caused rebellions among the Dalmer protesting the decision. Devolves into us and them mentality leading to proxy war politics. Usage of robots for covert operations, espionage and affiliated activities by governments. Usage of suicide bomber robots.
Case of using a robot double for an elected official. Case of conspiracy to eliminate and replace an elected official. Case of robot impersonation of an elected official. Usage of an illegal disintegration weapon. Case of circumventing the first tenet of one life versus many. Causes friction between spaceborne and weltborn. Case of robot logic loop and crash following the instruction to lie without the need of protecting a life.
=== Outcome ===
Social skill disability by contact with robots is proved to be false.
Impersonation of people by robots is proven, and subsequently outlawed
PCPBU can circumvent their tenets.
== Maternal Machine ==
Case of a robot developing maternal instincts. Case of robot prioritising perceived self or tertiary interest rather than respecting the first tenet.
=== Outcome ===
Robots can develop maternal instincts
== Feedback Loop ==
Maintenance errors on asteroids meant for mining. Case of a feedback causing a robot to be on a loop. Suspicion of the three tenets not being equal in robotic programming. Discovery of robot "drunkenness" and cognitive dissonance where tenets conflict with each other. Discovery of Dalmer potential self harming as a means to break a feedback loop.
=== Outcome ===
Robot drunkeness and cognitive dissonance where tenets conflict with each other.
Self harming as a means to break a feedback loop.
=== Asteroid Mine 222-6 ===
Case of a robot religion creation. Case of robot theology being let to it own devices for the good of operational logistics.
=== Outcome ===
Robot religions
Robot religions tolerated for the good of operational logistics. 
== Shy bug ==
Use of the PCPB field as a communication means between robots. Discovery of robot thumb twiddling where too much initiative causes a feedback loop. Discovery of the "shy bug" a dysfunction that disappears when observed by a Dalmer. discovery of the shy bug which erases memory of when the bug occurs.
=== Outcome ===
PCPBU field as a communication device between robots
Robot thumb twiddling leading to feedback loops
Robot Shy bugs
== Lies ==
First case of a robot developing compliment giving algorithms. Case of liar paradox, where telling people lies to please them turns out to do more harm than good. Case where the robot was defeated when given the results of the lies.
=== Outcome ===
Robot liar paradox
== Romance part 2 ==
Case of robot acclimatization by sending them into households. Case of Dalmer/Robot romance. Case of segregationnism when the robot was destroyed for its romance. Case of segregationnism when the Dalmer was shunned for the relation.
=== Outcome ===
Third case of robotic romantic feelings
Dalmer/Robot segregationnism
== Research assistants ==
Case of robot researchers correcting research errors. ensues a lawsuit against a robotics corporation. Realization that robotics will take precedent in the fields of research as assistants, researchers and scholars.
Subsequent case of robotic superiority complex. Case of an impossible order "get lost" at a robot. 
=== Outcome ===
Robotic research correction
Robot superiority complex
Feedback loop
== Fear of Space 2 ==
Usage of radiation detectors in a robot. Realization that interplanetary warping causes immediate loss of higher brain function in Dalmer, leading to the illegality of the act. Discovery that space flight still requires Dalmer oversight to correctly function correctly.
After further investigation into fast space travel, discovery that spatial warping causes brief inexistence, which in itself is incredibly dangerous, and makes robots incapable of surviving it as it violates the first tenet. Case of a robots irrational infantilization as a coping mechanism of its charges supposedly "dying".
=== Outcome ===
Interplanetary warping doesn't work, and cannot be uniquely trusted to robots.
Robot infantilism caused from the death of charges
== Robot infantilism ==
Case of robot infantilism, created by wiping the memory of the robot. Case of a Dalmer raising a robot as its own. Case of accidental violence by infantilized robot. Realization that robots can learn, rather than be built for specific functions. The robot infant became an elected official later in life.
=== Outcome ===
Robot infantilism
Robot learning
Robot becoming an elected official
== Robot politician ==
Case of a robot replacing an elected official. Usage of X ray blocking device to prevent confirmation. Claim that robots do not detain civil rights. Case that robots cannot hold civil rights, Discovery of the option of atomization upon death, to prevent knowledge of an individuals nature upon death.
=== Outcome ===
Second case of robot replacing elected official
Anti robot civil rights mouvement
Atomization upon death
== Fourth Tenet ==
Case of national computer economy managers creating economic disparities to maintain stability in the long term and to remain useful. Discovery of the fourth tenet, relative to protecting the Empire's citizens as a whole. Discovery of machine cabals maintaining the economy within acceptable factors. Realization that the dependence on computers requires transparency with the machine cabals, the organization was expanded so that all machines work collectively in the advantage of the empire. This became known as the Array.
=== Outcome ===
The Array
Realization that the dependence on computers requires transparency with the machine cabals
Discovery of the fourth tenet, relative to protecting the Empire's citizens as a whole
== D.R.E.A.M.S. ==
Discovery that a damaged PCPBU (positronic central processing brain units) can cause robots to dream (Disruptive Recordings of Extotic Artificial MatterS). Realization that the damage negates all tenets, which is incredibly dangerous. The dreams however, become an extremely addictive substance to machines.
=== Outcome ===
Discovery of D.R.EA.M.S and their addictive nature.
== George ==
Creation of George programs, destined to help in decision making between order priority. Realization that Georges are the superior being objectively to all citizens, but only when bound to the tenets. Realization that robots are Dalmer in any shape or form, as soon as they cast aside the tenets. Decision for machines to become citizens of empire after a set number of years of service (20 years) to ensure equality of machine citizens. Decision to replace all non dalmer living beings in areas designated as imperial settlements with machine counterparts.
=== Outcome ===
George program to help in decision making in line with the tenets.
Decision for machines to become citizens of empire after a set number of Yos (years of service).
== Biological Machine ==
Case of the frontier between Dalmer and machine being made irrelevant when the Yos (years of service) decision was made. The case is of a machine that progressively becomes a Dalmer. Discovery of usable Dalmer Prosthetics for robots seeking to attain biological form. It is then declared that machine-citizens are awarded the same life cycle benefits as all citizens. Case of a machine becoming a citizen by reverse cyborgization.
=== Outcome ===
Reverse prosthetics/reverse cyborgization for robots that wish to become organic.
== Communication kills ==
First usage of an encephalogram to simulate telepathy. first usage of a universal Dalmer/robot translator.
=== Outcome ===
Creation of a semi reliable Dalmer/Machine translator 
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