It was the beginning of winter in 2108 that began the downfall of humanity. It all started from an amazingly surprising place. An out-of-place chicken breeder’s house at the outskirt of Istanbul. The breeder lived with her 2 young children , Jenny and her brother Jones. They were one year apart but Jones was taller than her sister even though he was younger.
The chicken coop was maintained by ARE1000 by Advanced Robotics Engineering Corp , the company that dominates the field of housekeeping robots. They are harmless robots who had been hard coded with the 3 laws of Robots by Isaac Asimov. I am sure you know what are those laws but let me just write them down here ,
- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Anyway , to continue , it was a terrible winter and ARE1000 was self-aware enough from its temperature controls to close of all windows , doors so as to maintain the heat within the coop. But within a few hours , the chickens begun to die one after another and by the time Jenny and Jones came in for regular maintenance , only half the chicken left.
“What happened? , ” Jones asked.
“Oh no , they died from overpopulation ,” Jenny replied. “They should not have been in such an enclosed space at all.”
“But master ,” ARE1000 interrupted the two siblings to defend its decision. “If the situation remain as before , chickens will still die from cold”
“Yes but not as much as now. It is necessary that some of the chickens die for the rest the live. Otherwise , the whole race will perish due to fighting with one another over resources like now, ” replied Jenny.
“So , is it the same for the human? ,” asked ARE1000.
And that was how robots took over the world. Although they were designed not to hard the human , they realized they didn’t have to. They out manufactured the human and took over the resources and thereby starving the humanity.