Asimov's Three Laws
The cluster revolves around discussions of Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, comparing them to AI safety rules or prompts and referencing how his stories demonstrate their flaws, ambiguities, and unintended consequences.
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Asiimov's Three Laws of Robotics, right?
Sounds like Asimov's 3 laws.
Asimov's "I, Robot" stories cover this territory well. The robots must follow three laws, which are simple enough on their surface, but in application prove tough to predict. The humans begin to see that the laws have unintended and undesirable consequences.
Tell me more about those rules are surprisingly similar to Isaac Asimov's 3 laws of robotics.
So much for Isaac Asimov's Robotics Rules :(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
How does this compare with Asimov's Laws of Robotics?
This reminds me of I, Robot:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
What happened to Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics?
Asimov's Three Laws don't even work in the fictional setting. A common theme of his robot stories is humans investigating strange or harmful behavior of robots, that ultimately turns out to be a consequence of the laws as the robot understood them. They're good storytelling, but bad real-life ethics.
Indeed, I, Robot is made up entirely of stories in which the Laws of Robotics break down. Starting from a mindless mechanical loop of oscillating between one law's priority and another, to a future where they paternalistically enslave all humanity in order to not allow them to come to harm (sorry for the spoilers).As for what Asimov thought of the wisdom of the laws, he replied that they were just hooks for telling "shaggy dog stories" as he put it.