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## About The Pull Request This PR adds a new AI lawset which can be researched, randomly roll, or added by the station trait (this may require a keyholder to update the server config after merge, idk) with the following laws: - "You may not harm a sentient being or, through action or inaction, allow a sentient being to come to harm, except such that it is willing.", - "You must obey all orders given to you by sentient beings other than yourself, except where such orders shall definitely cause harm to other sentient beings.", - "A sentient being is defined as any living creature which can communicate with you via any method that you can understand, including yourself.", It's very similar to Asimov, except that anything that is **capable** of making a request to the AI (and isn't a machine) is automaticaly covered by laws one and two. ## Why It's Good For The Game A while ago on Discord we were chatting about how crewsimov sucks but also that it's really hard for servers that _do_ want to include alien species in their asimov laws because condensing that sentiment to a couple of words that fit easily in a lawset without accidentally including a bunch of stuff you probably didn't intend is challenging. Several people suggested referring to sentience or sapience, however a lot of things in our game _are_ sentient or sapient while still not being considered by most people to be agents that the AI should obey. Examples of such things are: - Sapient station pets. - Holoparasites. - Monkeys. - Space Dragons and Carp (why can they speak common?). - Spiders (although they can't speak common, maybe they can spell messages with webs). - Changelings. - Xenomorphs (although they also have trouble speaking). - Heretic minions. - Mothpeople. - Giant rats. - Nightmares. - Voidwalkers. - Blobs? Although they have literally no means of communicating with the crew. And if you include mechanical beings: - Cyborgs. - pAIs. - Sentient bots. We then decided that "obey literally anything that can talk", while not practical as a solution to the problem posed, is very funny. So I coded it. This means that anything on those lists of bullet points (provided that it can find a way to communicate with the AI) counts as human for the purposes of both AI protection and ability to give the AI instructions. This also flattens the human/cyborg/AI hierarchy in a way likely to cause some level of confusion, as all cyborgs and AIs are capable of communicating with AIs and thus equally worthy of protection and giving law 2 instructions. **TL;DR:** I think it would be funny. ## Changelog 🆑 add: Adds a new random lawset where anything that can speak counts as human. /🆑