<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_-7191557165162776964WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><br> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Headlines are saying a US drone took out a Syrian tank in self-defense.  There were humans who perished inside the tank.  Is this the first known incident of a robot violating Asimov’s first law?  Or does that count, since it wasn’t autonomous?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​Is there an autonomous robot/AI/drone?  Are self-driving cars autonomous?  This is a serious question.  I am not sure what 'autonomous' means in this day of tech marvels.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">​It can't count as a failure of Asimov's Laws of Robotics, since, presumably, those were not installed in the drone.​</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​</div>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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