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:baba_yaseen: :agender_flag:🏳️‍⚧️ on Nostr: One overused cliche I see in discussions about "ethical AI" is the idea of making ...

One overused cliche I see in discussions about "ethical AI" is the idea of making autonomous systems, robots, etc, "three laws compliant".

While it is obviously a credit to the imagination of Asimov, I find it to be a very clear sign that the people who say that robots need to follow these laws IRL haven't actually read his novels.

The Three Laws are a literary device, not a scientific one. Asimov only invented them to explore the conflict between the three laws and to explore the conflict between artificial intelligences and human intelligences.

They are, in essence, a thought experiment.

Most crucially and most importantly: you can't apply them to real robots, because unlike Asmiov's fictional creations, no autonomous system that exists today actually has the ability to reason in a way that would allow them to come to a conclusion over whether they are following The Three Laws.
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