The Laws Of Robotics – Human Robot Interaction

In our previous podcast episode The Good Robot we discussed the difficulty of enabling robots to act ethically. When talking to journalists or policy makers about machine ethics you frequently get the response, well, Issac Asimov already solved that problem with his three laws of robotics. These laws are so seductively simple that most will intuitively understand them. In this episode of the Human-Robot Interaction podcast, Sean Welsh and I will have a close look at these laws and try to understand why barely anybody has ever tried to use them in their robot.

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ISSN 2703-4054

Important Links:

AI Armageddon and the Three Laws of Robotics by Lee McCauley
Why the three laws of robotics do not work by Chris Stokes
The Unacceptability of Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics as a Basis for Machine Ethics by Susan Leigh Anderson

Author: bartneck

Dr. Christoph Bartneck is an associate professor and director of postgraduate studies at the HIT Lab NZ of the University of Canterbury. He has a background in Industrial Design and Human-Computer Interaction, and his projects and studies have been published in leading journals, newspapers, and conferences. His interests lie in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Science and Technology Studies, and Visual Design. View all posts by bartneck

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