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more about #threelaws joetato: Fourth Law: The best quips during bad movies will be reserved for Dr. Clayton Forrester, his mother Pearl, TV's Frank, or Dr. Larry! more » brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there(: Damn, I thought this was going to be about giving sentient AIs the same rights as humans. I guess they're still destined to be our slaves, which will ... more » MyNameIsTooAwesome: I think that every robot should come with a giant red off button on it's chest. more » Doug Nelson: They tried this in Robocop 2. more » Grey_Area: Yeah, I'm sure this won't get out of hand... Law of Robotics 923: In the interpretation and application of this chapter, the public policy of this S... more » ManchuCandidate: Who's the robotiscist? I know it's you, Skynet. more » NefariousNewt: Rule 0: If it's on the Internet, it must be true. more » Trystero: As P.W. Singer points out in "Wired for War" (the blog and the book), the laws of robotics are effectively meaningless when the most rapid advances in... more » bluehinter: Asimov's 3 laws is are a romanticized fictional concept... nothing more. In real life, there is only two laws of robotics: 1) Robots do what they ar... more » The Curse of Millhaven: We are definitely going to have to redesign the laws before robots can sit on health care death panels. more » disatess: at least we credit Asimov for trying to a make and some what near solid set of laws. but even in his books they were broken . more » Belabras: I'm a big fan of NASA's martian robots myself [marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov] more » CodenameV: The Zeroeth Law: A Robot may not harm Humanity, or through inaction, allow Humanity to come to harm. This supercedes the other laws. This grows out o... more » Gann: The problem with the 3 laws is a darwinistic one. Robots programmed with the 3 laws will be less useful to those in power than robots that simply obe... more » atrus123: That picture is totally 1950 Robo-Sexy. more » cash907: Dors didn't deactivate due to her actions resulting in the death of a human being, she deactivated because the human being she killed had figured out ... more » Grey_Area: It's a shame everyone forgets Asimov's role on the long-running TV comedy the Goodies. more » -
#robotics
Roboticists Want to Amend Asimov's Laws
Asimov's three Laws of Robotics were meant to ensure that robots would serve as safe and useful tools for humans, but some modern roboticists say the rules don't mesh with current technology, and propose a new set of robotics laws. More » -
#triviagasm
How Isaac Asimov's Non-Deadly Robots Got Lethal
With his elegantly simple Three Laws of Robotics, Isaac Asimov sidestepped the murderous robot cliche that had so dominated science fiction. But even the Good Doctor wasn't completely immune to the lure of killer robots.
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