How Asimov's Three Laws Ran Out of Steam

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like AI-powered weapons systems could soon be outlawed before they're even built. While discussing whether robots should be allowed to kill might like an obscure debate, robots (and artificial intelligence) are playing ever-larger roles in society and we are figuring out piecemeal what is acceptable and what isn't. If killer robots are immoral, then what about the other uses we've got planned for androids? Asimov's three laws don't seem to cut it, as this story explains: 'As we consider the ethical implications of having robots in our society, it becomes obvious that robots themselves are not where responsibility lies.'"

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Missed the point

[Anonymous Coward]

Asimov's stories were all about how the three laws were not sufficient for the real world. The article recognises this, even if the summary doesn't.

Re:Missed the point

[girlintraining]

Asimov's stories were all about how the three laws were not sufficient for the real world. The article recognises this, even if the summary doesn't.

Dice Unlimited Profits And Robotics, Inc., would like to remind you that it's new, hip brand of robotic authors have just enough AI to detect when something is sufficiently nerdy to post, but unfortunately lack the underlying wisdom of knowing why something is nerdy. Unfortunately, I expect our future killer robots in the sky will have similar pattern recognition problems... and wind up exterminating everyone because they are deemed insufficiently [insert ethnicity, nationality, race, etc., here] in pursuit of blind perfectionism.

Common sense has never been something attributed either to slashdot authors, or robotic evil overlords.