This all sounds legit, except one factor - Harry and I were talking about it, and it seems like in this setting the fact that the robots are developing distinct personalities and apparent sentience would be a bigger deal, because we don't have any background stuff dealing with that.
So what we were thinking is that, along with their training, CONDOR is primarily interested in verifying if they are, in fact, sentient as part of their studies. Because that would be sort of a revolutionary thing in AI technology and robotics. So before the Medabot corporation can go ahead with anything big, CONDOR wants to test this out.
Because if they really are sentient, then all kinds of other social ethics things are going to come into play. But they don't want to get ahead of themselves until they are sure.
(PS. I also basically screamed MEDABOTS when i saw this because i frigging love medabots.)
Re: Medabots
So what we were thinking is that, along with their training, CONDOR is primarily interested in verifying if they are, in fact, sentient as part of their studies. Because that would be sort of a revolutionary thing in AI technology and robotics. So before the Medabot corporation can go ahead with anything big, CONDOR wants to test this out.
Because if they really are sentient, then all kinds of other social ethics things are going to come into play. But they don't want to get ahead of themselves until they are sure.
(PS. I also basically screamed MEDABOTS when i saw this because i frigging love medabots.)