The Case of the Killer Robot consists of seven newspaper articles, one journal article and one magazine interview. This scenario is intended to raise issues in computer ethics and in software engineering.
The text has kindly been made available by its author for many years. This repo is a Jekyll site with styling to help students investigate it on a web browser.
The URL to share with students is:
The repo is synched upstream from davewhiteland/epstein-killer-robot
The website/repo is available under the MIT License.
Copyright notice for the text:
© 1989, 1994 Richard G. Epstein
Permission is granted to copy this material for use in classroom instruction at a college or university. This material may not be copied for any other purpose without express written permission of the author.
Thanks to Richard G. Epstein for the original scenario and making it available.
The Case of the Killer Robot text used here was taken from North Carolina State University's site.
This presentation of the material was created for use by the Computer Science department at RHUL as a Jekyll site. See the copyright notice above which concerns the Killer Robot scenario. The repo containing this site is available under an MIT License: you're free to fork it and host it locally, or as a GitHub pages site.
Metal texture image via pxfuel.
Additional graphics by Dave Whiteland.
The characters in the documents are fictional; so the photographs are too. Specifically, the headshots were taken from thispersondoesnotexist.com. They were imagined by a Generative Adversarial Network (specifically, StyleGAN2 (Dec 2019) — Karras et al. and Nvidia).
If you're interested in how that works see this YouTube video on StyleGANv2
Thanks to Phil Wang for making thispersondoesnotexist available, and credit to Nvidia for StyleGAN2!