http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/ en-us Copyright 2005 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:42:04 -0500 Sun, 12 Jun 2005 19:35:06 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.01D http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss by Michael Roy Ames Isaac Asimov imagined his robots in the shape of humans so that they would fit well into human society and be as useful as possible. When designing a robot, the external shape is important to... http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/3_laws_dont_qui.html http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/3_laws_dont_qui.html Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:42:04 -0500 by Greg Bear One of the most persuasive themes in literature is that of the artificial servant. In his 1921 play “RUR,” Karel Capek named his artificial servants “robots,” from the Czech word robota, which roughly translates as “unwilling... http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/all_the_robots.html http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/all_the_robots.html Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:45:35 -0500 by Roger Clarke (Partial reprint. Originally published as two parts in IEEE Computer, December 1993) With the death of Isaac Asimov on April 6, 1992, the world lost a prodigious imagination. Unlike fiction writers before him, who regarded robotics... http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/asimovs_laws_of.html http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/asimovs_laws_of.html Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:57:24 -0500 by Michael Anissimov Asimov’s 3 Laws of Robotics may seem a decent set of guidelines for ensuring that future robots and AIs behave in satisfactory ways. But there are several problems that immediately emerge when we look deeper. For... http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/deconstructing.html http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/deconstructing.html Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:43:10 -0500 by Michael Roy Ames Isaac Asimov created the heroine Susan Calvin, a legendary robot designer and trouble-shooter. Susan foresaw the eventual outcome of robots spreading throughout the world. She imagined that robots with the 3 Laws would become intellectually... http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/one_law_to_rule.html http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/one_law_to_rule.html Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:46:19 -0500 by Anders Sandberg That the Three Laws are insufficient to guarantee robot behavior should be obvious to anyone who has read Asimov’s stories. Usually the main plot is about misbehaving robots and the mystery is why – rather than... http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/too_simple_to_b.html http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/too_simple_to_b.html Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:40:17 -0500 by Michael Roy Ames Isaac Asimov spent most of his robot stories showing failures of his 3 Laws Of Robotics. The laws were created as a plot device, superficially appealing but incomplete and ambiguous, allowing him to generate interesting... http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/robot_oppressio.html http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/robot_oppressio.html Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:21:21 -0500 by Mike Lorrey Our writers come from a wide variety of political viewpoints. Mike Lorrey writes from a strong libertarian perspective, and draws some thought-provoking analogies. “Those who would trade liberty in exchange for some degree of security end... http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/unsafe_at_any_l.html http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/unsafe_at_any_l.html Tue, 06 Jul 2004 17:33:43 -0500 by Gordon Worley 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... http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/robot_oppressio_1.html http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/robot_oppressio_1.html Mon, 05 Jul 2004 17:21:21 -0500 by Eliezer Yudkowsky There are certain important things that evolution created. We don’t know that evolution reliably creates these things, but we know that it happened at least once. A sense of fun, the love of beauty, taking joy... http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/why_we_need_fri_1.html http://www.asimovlaws.com/articles/archives/2004/07/why_we_need_fri_1.html Sun, 04 Jul 2004 18:40:16 -0500