Guarini and Bello continue, “A system without emotion … could not predict the emotions or action of others based on its own states because it has no emotional states.
.… so it could predict them using another system! To do arithmetics, Humans use their fingers, or memorize multiplications tables, but a computer doesn’t need either of those. I don’t see why it would need emotions to predict emotions either.
Similarly, there was that time US soldiers fired on a camera crew, even laughing at them for being incompetent terrorists when they ran around. Or they just capture and torture them with a poor explanation.
(source, it’s from page 138 of Robot Ethics)
.… so it could predict them using another system! To do arithmetics, Humans use their fingers, or memorize multiplications tables, but a computer doesn’t need either of those. I don’t see why it would need emotions to predict emotions either.
As a side note, we are getting better at software recognition of emotions.
Similarly, there was that time US soldiers fired on a camera crew, even laughing at them for being incompetent terrorists when they ran around. Or they just capture and torture them with a poor explanation.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/04/06/us-iraq-usa-journalists-idUSTRE6344FW20100406
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/jan/13/usnews.iraq