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Ask HN: What has happened to Azimov's rules for robots in 2025?
Why have people forgotten the three rules? There are numerous reports of the development of manned robots, semi-autonomous targeting devices, and the inevitable emergence of swarms of fully autonomous killer devices.
- bigyabai 1y agoCapitalism has one rule: is it profitable? Much simpler to program around.
- pavel_lishin 1y agoThe three rules were never meant to be a guideline for how to safely build artificial intelligences; the three rules were incredibly fallible, and most of the stories centered around how they weren't enough to protect neither humans nor robots, or about the unintended consequences of those rules. I remember reading somewhere that Asimov explicitly made the rules faulty, so he could write interesting stories, but I don't know if that's apocryphal or not.
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- JohnFen 1y agoExactly this. For people who have never read the book "I, Robot" (which is unrelated to the movie), the entire unifying theme of the stories in the collection is how the Three Rules don't actually work.
- sherdil2022 1y agoThose rules are not 'set in stone' - for lack of a better term. They are more like guidelines.