Some tech leaders and lawmakers are mirroring Asimov’s concern about threats that robotics and AI pose to society. Source: Rinaldo Brutoco, AI Most science fiction fans are aware that Isaac Asimov propounded his Three Laws of Robotics in the March 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine and later republished them in his famous 1950 collection, I, Robot. Since then, readers have been thinking through both the obvious and the not-so-obvious implications of his dicta. In an era when people fear that AI threatens all of human civilization, Asimov’s observations about robots’ dangers to humans feel even more prescient. Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics are as follows: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a…
Source: The Robot Report