New Laws of Robotics proposed for US kill-bots

the register ^ | 13th April 2007 | By Lewis Page

[Flavius]

Effectively the robot is allowed to disarm enemies by prying their guns from their cold dead hands.

[EveningStar]

ping!

[cripplecreek]

Robot on robot violence is everyone's problem.

[Clock King]

This power can not be revoked!

[brivette]

Issac Asimov “I Robot” needs to be reviewed.

[theFIRMbss]

[BenLurkin]

Our current enemies do not deserve the dignity of being killed by men.

Let the terrorist scum be hunted down and terminated by machines.

[cripplecreek]

I vote for pigs with fricken laser beams on their heads.

[EveningStar]

Misc ping

[JRios1968]

I vote for pigs with fricken laser beams on their heads.

"I like it..."

[Brujo]

The report can be downloaded from here. (It's a .PDF file.)

[EveningStar]

Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey orders given 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.

[moonhawk]

Cylons!!!

[wildbill]

First Law of Terminator Robots—I will kill you when I have nothing left but my cold dead hands.

Second Law of Terminator Robots: I’ll be back!

[Perdogg]

Be sure to read the short Story by Phillip K Dick called To Serve a Master or even Second Variety.

[beebuster2000]

"rendered epileptic or incapacitated by vomit beams"

I knew it. CIA has clandestinely teted this wep sys at college frat parties. splains a lot IMHO.

[verum ago]

denying someone who wants to kill you their equipment doesn’t solve the problem- it still leaves someone who wants to kill you running around and as pissed as ever. I would’ve thought the flawed premise of gun control makes that much clear.

[Bommer]

“Let machines target other machines,” he writes, “and let men target men.”

Oh like a machine gun shooting only another machine gun?

[Kevmo]

bump for later reading

[Centurion2000]

Having combat bots on the field will certainly demoralize opponents .... sure people are ready to kill for a lot of things like ideology or religion. How many of them are willing to risk their lives and ‘souls’ to kill 150,000 dollars worth of autonomous combat robots?