Second Variety
by Philip K. Dick
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"They were already beginning to design weapons to use against each other."
"Second Variety" is a thought-provoking short story of the author's ideas of what would happen as a result of the human race developing artificially-intelligent robots for war. The story describes several different varieties of robot-soldiers, such as Davids, Klauses, and Tassos, among others. Each variety is identical to every other robot of the same variety.
In the end, one of the Tassos is able to trick the main character of the story into giving her information about the secret location of the humans' moon base, claiming she would send back help for him. He soon after realizes his mistake, as he comes to the conclusion that she would not help him. He was tricked into giving up the location of a very secret colony.
This provides a very troubling insight regarding how dangerous it would be to create another race who could function with such higher thinking that humans are capable of. The last sentence in the story, "they were already beginning to design weapons to use against each other," explains how similar these artificially-intelligent robots were to humans with their way of thinking and violent nature.
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