# Which fictional AI robot is known for being persuasive? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 6, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353 "2019-10-06T15:04:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/21 "2019-10-06T20:51:01Z")
> **[The Quest for Saint Aquin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quest_for_Saint_Aquin)** > > "The Quest for Saint Aquin" is a science fiction short story by the American writer Anthony Boucher, originally published in 1951 in New Tales of Space and Time. "The Quest for Saint Aquin" was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards. As such, it was published in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964. > In a post-apocalyptic technocratic future E... There’s **The Quest for St. Aquin**. Android converts all who hear him preach. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/22 "2019-10-06T22:12:13Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > 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. actually, you could say 98 percent of StarWars is because of something R2-D2 did simply because in the books he was the only one who knew everything about everyone involved despite having his memory “erased” he still retained it all from the phantom menace although wasnt he in amadialas palace ? I remeber a discussion that people said SW sort of alluded to that R2 might of been a force capable droid… ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/23 "2019-10-06T22:17:21Z")
For two more Asimov characters: R. Daneel Olivaw and (arguably) Dors Venabili. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/24 "2019-10-06T22:23:39Z")
Rosie could push around most of the Jetson family. [(Until she was charged with moider.)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ft7JIQz2k) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/25 "2019-10-06T22:32:14Z")
_“I don’t want to kill Ultron; he’s unique. And he’s in pain. But that pain will roll over the Earth. So he must be destroyed: every form he’s built, every trace of his presence on the 'net. We have to act now, and not one of us can do it without the others. Maybe I am a monster; I don’t think I would know, if I were one. I’m not what you are, and not what you intended. So there may be no way to make you trust me.”_ [casually hands Thor his hammer] _“But we need to go.”_ - The Vision ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/26 "2019-10-06T22:52:23Z")
Douglas Rain’s performance as HAL (in _2001: A Space Odyssey_) is dominated by his use of a very “reasonable” tone of voice—used in a clear attempt to persuade. Of course the attempt failed. But the intent was there. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/27 "2019-10-06T23:20:01Z")
I hate to say it but any sort of Fembot would probably persuade me quite easily. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/28 "2019-10-07T00:13:02Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > 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_) Hah, that was nothing Data did. It was clearly the sentience of Riker’s awesome new beard steering everything the way it needed to go. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/29 "2019-10-07T00:48:09Z")
The Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler … could talk all four legs off an Arcturan Megadonkey - but only Deep Thought could persuade it to go for a walk afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![road\_lobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@road\_lobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/road_lobo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/30 "2019-10-07T02:36:55Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Hah, that was nothing Data did. It was clearly the sentience of Riker’s awesome new beard steering everything the way it needed to go. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfwGyAZuBeU) ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/31 "2019-10-07T14:38:07Z")
Calculon ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/32 "2019-10-07T14:57:57Z")
> [@bump](#): > > Calculon 1.0 or 2.0? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/33 "2019-10-07T15:43:51Z")
[Bicentennial Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicentennial_Man_(film)) played by Robin Williams. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/34 "2019-10-07T15:56:38Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > [Bicentennial Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicentennial_Man_(film)) played by Robin Williams. _Bicentennial Man_ basically is a replay of the Adam Link stories, mentioned above, that heavily influenced the young Asimov. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/35 "2019-10-07T16:02:40Z")
> [@pool](#): > > I hate to say it but any sort of Fembot would probably persuade me quite easily. _Bionic Woman_ type Fembots, or Austin Powers? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/36 "2019-10-07T16:18:30Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > _Bionic Woman_ type Fembots, or Austin Powers? [Austin Powers] Machine gun jubblies! How did I miss those baby? [AP ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/37 "2019-10-07T19:00:11Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > _Bionic Woman_ type Fembots, or Austin Powers? Both ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/38 "2019-10-07T19:35:15Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > _Bionic Woman_ type Fembots, or Austin Powers? > [@pool](#): > > Both Vincent Price’s robots had their charms. [Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Goldfoot_and_the_Bikini_Machine) [Dr.\_Goldfoot\_and\_the\_Girl\_Bombs]([DR - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr). Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/39 "2019-10-07T19:57:37Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Vincent Price’s robots had their charms. > > [Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Goldfoot_and_the_Bikini_Machine) > > [Dr.\_Goldfoot\_and\_the\_Girl\_Bombs]([DR - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr). Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs) Whoa! I always wondered if I had dreamed that movie, I thought it was one of the many “Beach” movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, no wonder I never found clips of it before. (Dr. Goldfoot giving a tour of the dungeon to the heroes, with a cameo by Annette) ---
**Author:** ![squidfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@squidfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squidfood)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353/40 "2019-10-07T20:21:22Z")
Some of those Special Circumstances AIs in Iain Banks’ _Culture_ novels were pretty persuasive - particularly at offers one couldn’t refuse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-ai-robot-is-known-for-being-persuasive/841353.md?page=3)