• @[email protected]English
    15•2 months ago

    How about “a robot must have complete loyalty to its owner, even if this is not in the best interests of its manufacturer”. Fat chance, I know.

    • Echo DotEnglish
      12•2 months ago

      Technically the laws of robotics already have that.

      Law 2: a robot must obey any order given to it by a human as long as such order does not conflict with the first law.

      Of course that’s little help, because the laws of robotics are intentionally designed not to work.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•2 months ago

        Wouldn’t be much of a short story if they did.

        I liked the one where the robot could sense people’s emotional pain, and went crazy when it had to deliver bad news.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•2 months ago

          Yup, and later Asimov expanded this short story into a saga that brought to the birth of law Zero:

          A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.