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Maria Hedlund

Maria Hedlund

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Maria Hedlund

Who should obey Asimov's Laws of Robotics? A question of responsibility

Vem ska lyda Asimovs robotlagar? En fråga om ansvar

Författare

  • Maria Hedlund
  • Erik Persson

Redaktör

  • Spyridon Stelios
  • Kostas Theologou

Summary, in English

The aim of this chapter is to explore the safety value of implementing Asimov's Laws of Robotics as a future general framework that humans should obey. Asimov formulated laws to make explicit the safeguards of the robots in his stories: (1) A robot may not injure or harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; (2) A robot must obey the 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. In Asimov's stories, it is always assumed that the laws are built into the robots to govern the behaviour of the robots. As his stories clearly demonstrate, the Laws can be ambiguous. Moreover, the laws are not very specific. General rules as a guide for robot behaviour may not be a very good method to achieve robot safety - if we expect the robots to follow them. But would it work for humans? In this chapter, we ask whether it would make as much, or more, sense to implement the laws in human legislation with the purpose of governing the behaviour of people or companies that develop, build, market or use AI, embodied in robots or in the form of software, now and in the future.

Avdelning/ar

  • Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
  • Space Humanities
  • Praktisk filosofi

Publiceringsår

2024-11-25

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

9-25

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

The Ethics Gap in the Engineering of the Future : Moral Challenges for the Technology of Tomorrow

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Ämne

  • Political Science
  • Computer and Information Sciences

Aktiv

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Space Humanities

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 9781837976362
  • ISBN: 9781837976355