阿西莫夫通过《双百人》展示了人格的丰富内在含义,特别是其中所包含的财产、自由、生命和人格尊严的基本内容。作者通过揭示在现代英美法框架下,机器人安德鲁获得法律上的主体资格的过程,或明或暗地提出了机器人学三法则所内含的矛盾问题,但是作者并没有对机器人学三法则进行任何文本的修订,这是因为作者意图通过对机器人安德鲁独一无二之特性丧失分析,隐微地告诉潜在的立法者对普遍赋予机器人法律主体资格之可能性与必要性的否定性倾向。阿西莫夫从机器人学的终极发展进行思考,将《双百人》作为他最喜爱也是自认为写得最好的机器人短篇作品,以不那么刺耳和令人反感的方式,提醒和警告在人工智能发展的时代,重申保障人类整体和个体的安全是而且必将是人类立法者的最高义务和最高价值。
In The Bicentennial Man,Asimov demonstrated the rich connotations of personality,especially the basic content of property,freedom,life and human dignity contained within it. Under the framework of modern Anglo-American law,by revealing the process of robot Andrew's obtaining the legal subject qualification,Asimov either explicitly or implicitly proposed the contradictions within The Three Laws of Robotics. However,he does not revise The Three Laws of Robotics,because he intends to tell the potential legislators,through the loss of the unique characteristics of robot Andrew,the negative inclination concerning the possibility and necessity of universally granting robots legal subject qualification. Asimov reflects on the ultimate development of robotics,and regards The Bicentennial Man as his favorite and best-written short story,which reminds and warns in a less harsh and offensive way that,in this era,with the development of artificial intelligence,reaffirming the guarantee of the safety of human beings as a whole and as individuals is and will be the highest duty and highest value of human legislators.
| Keywords: | AnthropocentrismAsimov's TeachingsThe Three Laws of RoboticsThe Relationship between Human Beings and Robots |