Hawkeye Wrote:Can't agree with you there....the reason being that theses boomers were the most human ones we ever seen. There been discussions that these boomers had their personalitys copied from humans, but we can't prove anything from these ideas......Fundamentally the reason for the illegal activity was due to damage messing with the artificial blood system and thus mechanical in nature. Thus humans were murdered in what the AD Police would probably consider the actions of a Mad Boomer. As I said it's debateable, but they sort of fit and thus deserve to be mentioned. The serverbot though I do classify as a mechanical problem.
Hawkeye Wrote:More like Largo falls under the Hal factor.....How so? The HAL 9000 wasn't your stereotypical B-movie computer that suddenly decides to turn on the human race. Neither was Skynet in the original Terminator, for that matter. The HAL 9000 was given the command to basically lie and withold information, which conflicted with his designed purpose of accurate reporting. Not being really designed to implement weighted goals this conflict eventually led him to kill the crew breaking conditioning against such a thing to resolve the conflict. He and his designers were sure he could carry on the mission, alone, which was the primary goal.
Fundamentally this class are software problems, as I see it. The AI's system while conditioned to do certain things, may be missing a expert system to handle certain things, which in turn can lead to it becoming mentally disordered in response. This in turn can lead to Mad Boomer incidents, like that A-class. Really though it's not that much different then with humans. Some humans are prone to certain mental disorders genetically, but if they aren't kicked just right they won't develop.