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Asimov's three laws of robotics are nonsense
- LatteLazy 6y agoIsn't the whole point of the rule that they sound good but then rapidly lead to "Skynet won't let me leave the house because being alive is dangerous".
- QuadrupleA 6y agoVery lazy article. Sets up its premise, then offers only one counterargument - that it's too hard to define "human" because of the edge cases of unborn fetuses and just-died people needing CPR. Nothing at all after that, the article just abruptly ends. Might be an interesting premise but someone will need to argue it better.
- Proven 6y agoI didn't know there's Zeroth Law. In any case, fetuses don't have rights (for the same reason abortion is widely allowed). As for freshly-died people, it's no different from about-to-die people: robots have no business deciding to interfere with humans - they should obey only their owners and follow their explicit instructions. People have a right to suicide. Being a robot or owning one doesn't entitle one to violate this right when others want to exercise it. The "laws" are wrong but not for the reasons from TFA.