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| by Isaac Asimov
One of Asimov's Robot Stories set in the background of Asimov's Future History |
Cover Notes
A Susan Calvin story.
A robot designed to proof read galley scripts of books is taken into the employ of a University, and is set to work. A professor attempts to sue U.S. Robots when the robot makes certain amendments to his text that undermine his professional reputation. The robot says that it is acting on First Law, and the passages were harmful to large numbers of people, although the Defence know that the robot has no concept of moral judgement in terms of the text it reads. Dr. Calvin eventually proves that the plaintiff did in fact get the robot to alter the text, in order to undermine the introduction of robots into society.
The final story in The Rest of the Robots is of the misunderstanding instruction variety. The plaintiff, with only a cursory knowledge of how to program a robot, gets it to be silent about its actions, but is outwitted by Dr. Calvin and her superior robopsychological understanding.
