Dilbert cartoon first published on Wednesday 4th February 2015

Dilbert//9426, first published 11 years ago on Wednesday 4th February 2015

Free Will Is An Illusion

Tags

business ethics, free will, robot, robotics, technology, emotionally manipulate, cloud connected, control humans

Official transcript

Dilbert Comic Strip Series - Emotionally manipulative robots

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

IM PROGRAMMING OUR ROBOT LINE TO EMOTIONALLY MANIP ULATE THEIR OWNERS INTO BUYING UPGRADES.

YOU'RE TEACHING CLOUD-CONNECTED ROBOTS ALL OVER THE WORLD HOW TO SURREPTITIOUSLY CONTROL HUMANS?

TECHNICALLY, YES.

BUT FREE WILL IS AN ILLUSION ANYWAY.

WELL, IF IT ISN'T, IT WILL BE.

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

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