Reply to post: Re: Need a 4th and even a 5th law

Are Asimov's laws enough to stop AI stomping humanity?

Robert Helpmann??
Terminator

Re: Need a 4th and even a 5th law

From "The Duel" in Robots and Empire, the 0th Law:

0. A robot may not harm humanity, or through inaction allow humanity to come to harm.

1. A robot may not harm a human, or through inaction allow a human to come to harm, unless this interferes with the zeroth law.

2. A robot must obey orders given to it by a human being unless such orders interfere with the zeroth or first laws.

3. A robot must defend its own existence unless such defense interferes with the zeroth, first or second laws.

Setting up emergent behavior which leads inevitably to robots as our benevolent overlords.

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