[ExI] drone violates asimov's first law

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 19:46:57 UTC 2018


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> 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?
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> spike
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> ​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.
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​It can't count as a failure of Asimov's Laws of Robotics, since,
presumably, those were not installed in the drone.​

bill w

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