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"). -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
