[LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

[Roger Clarke]

At 17:13 +1000 21/7/16, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>BTW, Asimov's laws of robotics have been well and truly debunked. ...

I was kinder than to say 'debunked'  (:-)}

And Asimov's own fiction extended the set from the nominal 3 to 5+2:
http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/Asimov.html#LawsExt


>They fail when you instruct several robots to perform certain actions which, to individual robots, are innocuous, but when taken in combination, are lethal

True, but, to be fair, Asimov himself defined and investigated 'roblock'.


Clarke R. (1993) 'Asimov's Laws of Robotics Implications for Information Technology' IEEE Computer 26,12 (December 1993) pp.53-61 and 27,1 (January 1994), pp.57-66, at http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/Asimov.html

(That's clocked up 200 Google citations, which isn't too bad for a po-faced analysis of a literary genre.  And, surprisingly, it appears to be currently the most-cited reference for "laws of robotics").


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