5/22/2023 0 Comments I robot 1950This battle between the qualitative and the quantitative, between human consciousness and abstract calculation, isn’t easily resolved, but one thing does seem certain: nobody likes an angry robot. But a team of robot psychologists, engaged in what we would today call quality control, soon discover certain glitches that become quite sinister.Īsimov, like philosophers before him, naturally assumed that there could be no true morality without emotion. It is perhaps most famous for the three essential laws embedded deep in every robot’s positronic brain.Īt first glance, these ethical precepts seem simple enough they are really not much different from the Golden Rule. I, Robot, first published in 1950, is a collection of short science fiction stories by author Isaac Asimov. Isaac Asimov, I, Robot Becoming Human by Christian Ristow, Black Rock City 2015 (Photo by Playaman) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.ģ. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.Ģ.
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