What an Excellent Topic! My vote is a strong No. Solely based on "Dune" reasons, as stated above... the day we make machines that are "better" than we are (Basically make them so they can percieve how flawed humaniti is, psychologically.) is the day that we sign our own Death Warrants... The Ancients and thier warbots found this out the hard way... There is a precedent in the Library on this topic...
Shudusham Concords
Agreement signed by twelve worlds of the Sylean Federation at Shudusham (Core/Capital 1821) in -110 which dealt with weaponry carried by robots. The Concords have no legal force now, but many worlds have adopted similar or identical standards using the Concords as a template, and most robots produced commercially in the Imperium are designed with these restrictions in mind.
The Concords consisted of seven articles:
Article 1
This gives a general explanation of the document, overall guidelines for robot construction, locations and occasion of robot use, and the rights of robot owners. The robot's owner is responsible for all actions the robot may perform, whether direct or indirect. Reliability is thus identified as a key issue, as is motivation for a robot equipped with a weapon or used as a weapon.
Article 2
Describes detailed programming guidelines for general functions.
Article 3
Covers detailed manufacturing standards to insure reliability and provide for the safety of owners and the general public.
Article 4
Gives guidelines for when and where weapons are allowed or prohibited.
Article 5
Describes specific programming logic for weapon control and usage. Most strongly worded of all the articles.
Article 6
Details manufacturing standards to insure weapon reliability, when weapon installation is allowed.
Article 7
provides for a new agency whose responsibility is to enforce the articles of the Concords.
Forty-three amendments were made over the course of the Concords' active life. The best known is the 37th amendment, that no pseudo biological robot may attempt to pass itself off as a living being. A hardcopy of the Concords is on display at the Museum of Sylean History on Capital.
This Description is vague at best, but article 7 hits it right on the head... I myself hail from a world that makes large use of Robotic Labor, in mining lanthanum, agricultural processing, and many other tasks. It is a system that works well, as the robots are "dumb" A smart robot, (or computer, etc.) and I mean really smart, Fully Self Aware, Etc. would be a wonderous thing indeed at tech level F... if there were only one of them... There are several good Precedents in ancient terran videos about the subject, one that comes to mind is one called "The Terminator" the other, infinitely more terrifying in its implications is a film called "Demon Seed"
Again, A great topic, what?