A question, why even construct them in the first place?
Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics
1 A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
2 A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law
3 A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law
Introduced in his 1942 short story Runaround
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The article brings up some interesting points.
The three laws would very much suit normal ‘household’ robots. But for the military and potential combat situations those rules would not apply or work well at all.
You would expect that the robot would need to be able to protect itself from enemys, and potentially kill. It would depend on the jobs the robots would be given, perhaps they would do repairs in places to dangerous for people, or bring back wounded soldiers. Or even become soldiers. Then of course they would somehow have to know the difference between the good guys and the bad guys.
Interesting to think about, a difficult problem to solve in the future.
But what if the enemy is all robots?
Does that mean Robots kill Robots?
Ummmmmm,could get confusing.
Sounds like more work for programmers in the future.
Two answers:
Some would consider it better than putting humans in the firing line.
Any robot capable of creating complex plans is going to have the ability to harm humans. Quite how (and even if) this should be prevented is not exactly clear.
Engadget has been warning us for years about the coming robot uprising, better code in a warrior code for those robots or they may just want to destroy people regardless of what side.:eek:
Maybe Robots could run this world better than people!!!
The machines already do run this world…
Robots do all of that and more, what you think society is ?
Ofcourse A_C. Sometimes I feel that we are turning into mindless robots . . . with art as our escape from the system set in place. But that is a good thing . . . as if we follow asimov’s 3 laws, we should in theory be ok.
Well there are automated bots or webspiders that deliver your search results in Google or even as a tool for bored people to chat with an AI.
There’s artificial intelligences that are convincing in new video games and may even soon be used as an agent to recieve your drive-through order at a fast food joint and even act as an automated agent at a hotel.
I take it you never read With Folded Hands by Jack Williamson.
A robot imprinted with the first law would follow you around, preventing you from eating Big Mac hamburgers (could harm you by causing cholesterol to build up in your arteries), drinking beer (alcohol is poison) or leaving the building unless you were coated with SPF 50 sunblock (skin cancer is the deadliest form of cancer).
I think people would quickly become fed up with this.
Robots with the first law would also prevent condemned criminals from being executed, and prevent surgeons from using a scalpel on their patients.
You also seem to have forgotten the Zeroth Law
Thank you for the linkys, they are cool!