Which fictional AI robot is known for being persuasive?

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Which fictional AI robot is known for being persuasive (rhetorically speaking)? How does he/she persuade? What persuasive skills does he/she exercise?

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I was thinking of Sonny in the movie 'I Robot ', but I couldn’t find anything regarding his persuasive skills.

Robot…from Lost in Space.

"DANGER…WILL ROBINSON…DANGER!!!, with silver dryer vent hose arms flailing about is…moderately persuasive.
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Asimov’s R. Giskard used ‘mentalic’ pursuasion on humans, and this skill, which he passed on to other robots, was used to establish the Foundation.

The AI in the 2018 movie upgrade.

While “persuasive” might not be the best term, Mike (Mycroft / Michelle / Adam Selene) in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is exceptionally good at analyzing trends and projecting from them, which is the impetus for declaring the Lunar Revolution in the first place.

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Asimov’s Stephen Byerly managed to convince a whole lot of people to vote for him for various elected positions, by proving to them that he wasn’t a robot.

Yeah - remember that one. He even “harms” a human by slapping an obnoxious human in the audience and thereby breaking the first law.

Only the person he slapped was not actually a robot.

Bender persuades with brash obnoxiousness and occasional violence.

Persuasive is a slippery word. Few robots simply talk to achieve their aims. “AI Robot” is also problematic. An intelligent robot does have artificial intelligence, but what about immobile computers with world-wide networking? Do they count?

Anyway, some examples.

The Automaton, by Abner J. Gelula, Amazing Stories, Nov. 1931. The super-intelligent automaton learns everything about society. It can’t take power but convinces the daughter of its inventor that with his brains she can do it. She soon becomes Queen of the world.

The Adam Link Stories by Eando Binder, starting in the Jan. 1939 Amazing with “I, Robot .” Built by a humanistic professor, Adam Link uses his super-intelligence to win freedom and citizenship by arguing his case before a court.

“The Evitable Conflict,” by Isaac Asimov, Astounding, June 1950. Steven Byerly, a robot indistinguishable from but smarter than humans, has the political skills to be elected World Co-ordinator. However, the world’s economy is truly run by four supercomputers that take in all economic data and use it to decide what they think is best for humanity.

Optimus Prime has considerable leadership skills.

Byerley also gets an extra point for a chat we see him cheerfully bluff his way through: he talks like he already knows the confidential info, and so the guy he keeps casually mentioning it to — well, eventually gets just as casual right back.

Others have brought up Asimov’s Stephen Byerly and R. Giskard. Byerly is a skilled politician and Giskard “rediscovers” the Zeroth Law and how to apply cerebroanalytic methods to steer humanity in the right direction, which anyway was what Byerly and the Machines had started doing back in the early 2000s of their timeline, only through more “conventional” politico-propagandistic methods.

Ava from Ex Machina persuades a human to “save” her, arguably because she’s hot.

While he would protest that he is an android, and not a robot, Lt. Cmdr. Data was known to be very persuasive. He managed to convince an admiral that he was indeed sentient and had the right to determine his own destiny when it was proposed that he be turned over to the Daystrom Institute for study. (ST:TNG - The Measure of A Man)

Roy Batty must have used his leadership skills to organize the Nexus 6 gang to risk everything heading to Earth.

Maeve from the TV series Westworld, after realizing that she was, in fact, a robot, managed to win several humans over to her side in her fight to survive and reunite with her robot daughter. Some of it may have been Stockholm Syndrome, sure, but it was also because she was also diamond-tough, determined, brilliant, brave and to a degree, caring; in short, she managed to persuade other humans by being more human than they were.

Trurl and Klapaucius, from Lem’s Cyberiad. I don’t know if they were supposed to be persuasive, but they certainly persuaded most of the other robots in the stories. Wikipedia lists Dorfl from Terry Pratchett’s Feet of Clay who argues successfully at the end of the book for his own person-hood. And yeah, the Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. That computer convinced any number of people about any number of ridiculous things.

R2-D2, from Star Wars. Entrusted with an urgent mission, he plays a snippet of his former owner’s SOS hologram, then makes up a story about his restraining bolt preventing him from playing the complete message. He does all of this in a successful effort to deceive the young nephew of his new owner to remove the restraining bolt, which permits him to escape and continue his mission.