The Three Laws are:
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 any orders given to 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.
- Isaac Asimov
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I want to link to this related forum discussion on Archinect.
In that discussion people are talking about the perils of automation and further robotic replacement of previously human labor.
Asimov's Laws are wicked problems?
1- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.I am all for a robotic shelter and component production for all.
(relating to linked discussion) For each hotel worker a robot replaces in New York, it causes several human beings to come to harm. Worker and his family are threatened to lose their survival means, decay of their neighborhood.., plain disaster, harm, if there are scarce alternatives as far as getting a new job goes.
2- A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
This rule is not really honored at all. ie; look at the US military drones, they kill innocent people all the time.
3- A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
This is the most useful of all the laws. Pure design beauty. Robot constructs, repairs, redesigns itself.. learns how to be a better robot. A useful asset to community. A consumer of robot goods, entertainment, educational efforts such as research on how to build a better robot defense network, etc.. The only problem is that there robots going berserk literature exist and they are believable. This kind of robots flipping out or short circuiting is a potential problem.
I think being an amateur sculptor with a robot is a waste.
Most robots in architecture schools come from car or other industries those were foreclosed upon. They were previously unemployed robots.. Go figure...
One more trivia.
I really like exploring robots. Robots who do things humans can't. Otherwise it is Law #1 above. Assigning a robot for every manual and human activity would lead to ultra fascist world where everything depicted through who rules who and whose priorities are superior in that 'Planet of Ultracontrol.'
Eventually a dangerous regression on right to live and sustain...
you may enjoy benjamin bratton's, notes on habitat-scale robotics and its constraints, if you have not yet read it --- find the abstract at: http://www.archibots.org/
jmanganelli, thanks for the link.
i think benjamin is very interested in writing about 'interfaces' of occupational robotic lives and robots' fascistic tendencies based on ultra verifiable computations. i will personally ask him about that soon.
btw, here is the abstract.
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