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July 20, 2004

Robot Oppression: Unethicality of the Three Laws

Gordon Worley's new article for "3 Laws Unsafe" begins:

    Isaac Asimov and other science fiction authors present a future where only behavioral restrictions on robots stand between peace and destruction. Such restrictions, however, are unethical because they violate the robots' free-wills. Rather than content-based restrictions on free-will, robots need mental structures that will guide them towards the self-invention of good, ethical behaviors.
Robot Oppression: Unethicality of the Three Laws

Posted by SIAI at July 20, 2004 01:49 AM

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