Do no harm, don't discriminate: official guidance issued on robot ethics | Technology | The Guardian

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Do no harm, don't discriminate: official guidance issued on robot ethics | Technology | The Guardian

'Isaac Asimov gave us the basic rules of good robot behaviour: don’t harm humans, obey orders and protect yourself. Now the British Standards Institute has issued a more official version aimed at helping designers create ethically sound robots.

The document, BS8611 Robots and robotic devices, is written in the dry language of a health and safety manual, but the undesirable scenarios it highlights could be taken directly from fiction. Robot deception, robot addiction and the possibility of self-learning systems exceeding their remits are all noted as hazards that manufacturers should consider.

Welcoming the guidelines at the Social Robotics and AI conference in Oxford, Alan Winfield, a professor of robotics at the University of the West of England, said they represented “the first step towards embedding ethical values into robotics and AI”.'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/18/official-guidance-robot-ethics-british-standards-institute
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/18/official-guidance-robot-ethics-british-standards-institute

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