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Message #06688
To: alt-beam@egroups.com
From: "Hyndman" hyndmanm@cadvision.com
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 18:35:47 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: robotic laws
During the time when the three "laws" of robotics were concived, it was
basically a thing for the public. No one is going to fund robotics research
when they think that the researchers might built a robot that goes bezerk
and starts terrorizing people. Most people have dropped these "laws". The
only thing they are good for right now is in science fiction publications.
I bet Cog has smashed in a few noses. Rodney Brooks I'm sure wouldn't admit
to the media about the minor(I hope) injuries Cog as caused to him over the
years.
Devin
>THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS
>1 - A robot may not injure a human being, or, through >inaction, allow
a
>human being to come to harm.
>2 - A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings >except
where
>such orders would conflict with the First Law.
>3 - A robot must protect its own existence as long as such
>protection
>does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
>
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