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Previously, as tools developed, they relied on humans to wield them. The hammer, the gun, and the computer are all examples of tools that required a human. Therefore, the human who used these tools was responsible for the outcomes. If you shoot a gun, the death that results from it are not the responsibility of the firearm's creator, but rather falls on who pulled the trigger. Computers were no different. Despite being able to perform tasks faster than any human, they are dependent on human input and direction and will not perform the tasks without said guidance. However, AI is different. It has already been established that AI is able to perform tasks such as a surgical procedure without human aide. What happens when AI is faced with an ethical dilemma? In this hypothetical situation, the carebot in question was programmed with ethics in mind and programmed to relieve pain and suffering of the patient as much as possible. If this carebot is set to take care of a terminally ill patient who is in constant pain, where does the carebot draw the line? From a purely logical point of view, if the patient is so far gone that they are always in pain, the only way to relieve said pain is to terminate the patient. We now are entering back into the realm of science fiction, but the reality is that these are things that need to be considered today.