Question

Story from Wesleyan Anthology (Book)
"Reason"
In the story, intelligent robots are

1. not allowed on earth

2. common appliances for families

3. kill human being

4. don't exist in the story

Answer 1

In the short story 'Reason' written by Issac Asimov in 1941, the intelligent robot species live in a space station and consider that everything else doesn't really exist and they consider humans to be unimportant.

However in the reality, no matter how smart they are, the robots were created by humans and they just use the believes of the robot in their favor by making them work in teams which believe in this thought.

So, according to this context, I believe that the answer should be 1. not allowed on earth, as they are confined to their space station only.

2. common appliances for families is not possible because they are created for specific tasks away from all the humans, but two who oversee the work of robot.

3. kill human being is wrong as they are made by humans, and are working for them

4. doesn't exist is wrong because they do exist.

This means that 1. not allowed on earth is indeed the correct answer to his question.