[LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 21/07/2016 5:36 PM, David Lochrin wrote:
> On 2016-07-21 17:13 Bernard Robertson wrote:
>
>> BTW, Asimov's laws of robotics have been well and truly debunked. They fail when you instruct several robots to perform certain actions which, to individual robots, are innocuous, but when taken in combination, are lethal
> And Asimov's "laws of robotics" are pure fiction (:-)!

Ha! Good one...

But many people believe that the laws are real and can offer significant
protection.

And the idea that robots and/or autonomous vehicles can predict
consequences and make ethical and/or moral judgements is even more
fictional.

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Regards
brd

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