Will Artificial Intelligence get high?

But more importantly, a logic-based artificial intelligence allows humans to define the ethical code from which potential Superintelligences can act. "I look at the hypothetical possibility of AI doing drugs from the standpoint of the kind of rationality that I would like to give to a robot," Bringsjord says, "and since that does not emulate the human brain, which is irrational, then the machine is not going to take that drug." John Licato, a research assistant at Rensselaer, supports the theory. "It would be irrational to make choices that would take an AI away from the primary thing that the robot is programmed to do," Licato says. This might not be because an AI won't have the capability of addiction, however, but instead because we equivocate drug use with satisfying a short-term, lower-level bodily desire, like using ecstasy as an aphrodisiac or opiates as a means to escape.