Can a robot experience an identity crisis (which is not by design)?

For those (readers) who have seen the blockbuster movie titled I, Robot (2004 film) there is a humanoid robot who prefers to be called Sonny: Clearly this implies that Sonny is different from the others. Anyway, for those who have not seen it Sonny is being investigated by Detective Spooner (who is a human) for causing the death of its creator/designer.

Things get complicated when people assume different identities. We tend to become hostile to those who appear different from us in aspects like language, nationality, race etc.

Case study A for human: A female child grows up thinking that she is a male trapped inside a girl's body.

Case study B for robot: A robot suddenly thinks that it is a human whose conscious is trapped inside a doll.

Q1: Is it possible for a robot to have identity crisis like the description in case study B?

Q2: Suppose we isolate the robot on the moon so that there is no interaction with any live human beings, is it possible that it will soon question its ability to explore the environment and even its own identity?

posted about 9 years ago

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