Asimov’s laws are not enough to keep robotics and AI safe

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Asimov's fictional Three Laws of Robotics famously set safeguards, and tech observers today raise similar concerns about AI. The post Asimov’s laws are not enough to keep robotics and AI safe appeared first on The Robot Report .

Some tech leaders and lawmakers are mirroring Asimov’s concern about threats that robotics and AI pose to society. Since then, readers have been thinking through both the obvious and the not-so-obvious implications of his dicta.

In an era when people fear that AI threatens all of human civilization, Asimov’s observations about robots’ dangers to humans feel even more prescient. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.