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A while back an acquaintance posed the following question in Linkedin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Why do you think these three laws for robots or AI failed for humans:
\u201cThe first law is that a robot shall not harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm.
The second law is that a robot shall obey any instruction given to it by a human,
and the
third law is that a robot shall avoid actions or situations that could cause it to come to harm itself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Harold (Steve) Hayden’s Comment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Well, firstly, the above is not complete for laws 2 and 3, the complete\/correct laws are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Let’s not forget Asimov later added the \u201cZeroth Law,\u201d above all the others \u2013 \u201cA robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WRT those laws “failing”, having been a S\/W engineer for decades, it’s a formidable challenge to code such laws (as real “behavior”), even more of a challenge to “teach” (e.g. learning systems\/technologies) those laws and “embedding”\/coding such laws to produce appropriate behavior into ALL systems is (IMHO) BEYOND (or at least one heck of a challenge) our “state of the art” (and more importantly, just the plain old desire\/requirement to implement those laws).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, I would submit, they’ve not been coded into our systems, and therefore have not failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FYI, back in the 80’s as a “visiting research scientist” at Vanderbilt University’s Center for Intelligent Systems, I was co-host for a “Workshop on Programming Environments for Intelligent Systems”, and I gave each attendee an EEPROM which I had “programmed” to contain the three original laws (before Asimov’s “0th” one appeared) in ASCII format giving the 150+ attendees the challenge “figure out what’s in them”. Likely those chips live in drawers\/landfills and nobody but me (and whoever reads this) will ever know they exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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