Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: Difference between revisions

When this trope is averted and all the intelligences in a work are humanoid and used for slave labor or war, this trope implies that humans [["Three Laws"-Compliant|have never read]] [[Isaac Asimov]], and use exactly the same hardware/software for ''every'' kind of industrial, military and personal robot, and are purposely [[We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future|needlessly inefficient]] or [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters|cruel]] because of it. Generally involves a [[Fantastic Aesop]]. May overlap with [[Robots Enslaving Robots]]. See also [[The Singularity]] for a popular way of reaching [[Deus Est Machina]]. One of the many ways of differentiating [[robot]]s.