In John Barnes’ Meme War series, a programmer creates very persuasive software, which can spread its beliefs (and the desire to spread them further) to human or machine.
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To me, that was the most irritating aspect of the film. Ultimately, the story isn’t about how computers can be intelligent, but about how horny nerds can be stupid.
Well, plus there was already a fully-functional sexbot in the movie so if Nathan wanted to disrupt society, he could have just unleashed a billion copies of it on the market.
The Terminator persuaded those bar patrons to “lend” him their clothes and a motorcycle… 
Harlie in When Harlie was One, managed to persuade the Chairman of the Board not to terminate the project he was the centerpiece of. OK, the blackmail helped, but that’s a form of persuasion, right?
Hel, the robot in Metropolis persuaded the workers to riot.
Well, being thrown onto a stove concentrates the mind wonderfully.
Thanks Qadgop the Mercotan. Did R. Giskard character influence the character played by Robin Williams in “Bicentennial Man”? Is there any connection? I haven’t watched Bicentennial Man. Are Asimov’s robotic laws ever questioned in the movie?
“Bicentennial Man,” the story, preceded The Robots of Dawn, in which R. Giskard first appeared, by several years. The movie is fairly closely based on the story. The Three Laws are not questioned at all in the movie, as far as I remember.
There’s definitely a negative correlation between “Intelligence” and persuasion in the AI robot Marvin from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
He knows what bad things are likely to happen and mutters his warnings for all to hear, but nobody listens to him, and bad things continuously happen. He could use better persuasion skills and learn to lighten up a bit…
Thanks Exapno Mapcase. Thank you all. Very helpful.
Culture Minds in general can predict human-level beings well enough to convince them of just about anything if they really want to.
GlaDOS and Wheatly from the Portal series bothtry to be persuasive…
I never saw the movie, but the 3 Laws definitely come up in the short story. There’s a part where Andrew (the robot) who has been “free” for many years, is accosted by 2 teenagers who order him to do some embarrassing things, like remove his clothes, and stand on his head. Even though he hasn’t had an order in decades, he’s forced to comply by 2nd Law. They’re about to instruct him to take himself apart (2nd law trumps 3rd), when George Martin arrives and breaks things up. He tells Andrew that the teenagers are about to attack him (George), so Andrew gets ready to defend George against the teens - who then run off, terrified.
OTOH, in what’s perhaps the greatest robot v. robot battle ever written, Marvin took out a tank by persuading it to shoot the floor it was standing on.
I just wanted to mention the AI of Rick’s car, in Rick And Morty: it’ll use lethal force to achieve its goal; and, if ordered to stop, it’ll use nonlethal force; but if it’s ordered against that, it’ll use the threat of force — and it’ll research subjects, using the like of public-record databases, to stage an elaborate hoax that’s tailor-made to achieve its goal — and, if it’s later ordered to stop using such “emotional countermeasures”, it’ll get itself a dose of Leave-Me-Alone immunity in a Not-A-Bad-Trade side agreement to the peace treaty it uses skilled diplomacy to broker between Party A and Party B: a win-win-win situation is possible, and so is negotiated.
(And that’s all just the secondary plot to one episode!)
I always thought Futurama’s Bender had some good ideas.