About the Killer Robot Papers


This online archive contains the Killer Robot Papers consisting of seven newspaper articles, one journal article and one Sunday newspaper magazine interview. The Case of the Killer Robot book, published by John Wiley & Sons (Epstein 1997), contains a lot more material.

The persons and institutions involved in this scenario are entirely fictitious (except for the references to the venerable computer scientists: Ben Shneiderman and Jim Foley). Silicon Valley was chosen as the location for the accident because Silicon Valley is an icon of high technology. All of the persons, business entities and institutions named in Silicon Valley are purely fictitious. Silicon Valley University is purely fictitious and has nothing to do with any actual university in Silicon Valley or elsewhere. It is just a fictitious device.