[extropy-chat] "3 Laws Unsafe" by the Singularity Institute

Adrian Tymes wingcat at pacbell.net
Mon May 10 17:28:00 UTC 2004


--- Tyler Emerson <emerson at singinst.org> wrote:
> Isaac Asimov's short story collection
> ...where his 3 Laws of Robotics were first
> introduced.
> 
> The 3 Laws of Robotics represent a popular view of
> how to construct
> moral AI, and their failures were often explored by
> Isaac Asimov in
> his stories.

I just find this so ironic.  Even their creator bashed
on them - indeed, he had a long literary career
finding all kinds of ways they could come undone.  And
yet people seriously propose to use them?



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