Meet the terrifying new robot that was built just to stab people - ScienceAlert
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Meet the terrifying new robot that was built just to stab people - ScienceAlert
'A roboticist from California has just unveiled a machine that purposefully stabs people with a needle, making it the first ever robot that's been created with the sole intention of doing harm to humans.
In the hopes of sparking an ethical debate, the creation goes directly against biochemist Isaac Asimov’s first and second laws of robotics, which state, in summary: "Robots may not harm people," and "A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law."
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As mentioned above, the robot is designed to go against the Three Laws of Robotics that Isaac Asimov spelt out in his 1942 short story, Runaround.
They state:
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
These three laws have long been pondered by philosophers and other ethicists who aim to understand how humanity might cope with their increasingly powerful and inevitable robot population, but this is the first time that someone has set out to break them on purpose, to force people to truly think about this in the physical sense.
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http://www.sciencealert.com/meet-the-new-robot-that-was-built-to-stab-people
http://www.sciencealert.com/meet-the-new-robot-that-was-built-to-stab-people
Meet the terrifying new robot that was built just to stab people - ScienceAlert
'A roboticist from California has just unveiled a machine that purposefully stabs people with a needle, making it the first ever robot that's been created with the sole intention of doing harm to humans.
In the hopes of sparking an ethical debate, the creation goes directly against biochemist Isaac Asimov’s first and second laws of robotics, which state, in summary: "Robots may not harm people," and "A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law."
[...]
As mentioned above, the robot is designed to go against the Three Laws of Robotics that Isaac Asimov spelt out in his 1942 short story, Runaround.
They state:
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
These three laws have long been pondered by philosophers and other ethicists who aim to understand how humanity might cope with their increasingly powerful and inevitable robot population, but this is the first time that someone has set out to break them on purpose, to force people to truly think about this in the physical sense.
...'
http://www.sciencealert.com/meet-the-new-robot-that-was-built-to-stab-people
http://www.sciencealert.com/meet-the-new-robot-that-was-built-to-stab-people
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