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From: "Carl Bauman" <cbauman@impulse.net>
Subject: Re: Ethics & Isaac Asimov
Date: 1999/01/20
Date: 1999-01-20T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36a60c30$0$201@sienna.impulse.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36A56985.1B891566@interact.net.au


G.M. Wallace wrote in message <36A56985.1B891566@interact.net.au>...
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|Does military software/hardware violate one or more of these laws of
|robotics ?


... snip ...

1. Military (soft/hard)ware does not come anywhere close to being a robot,
so the "three laws of robotics", should they ever be implemented, doesn't
apply.
2. Since the reason for this (soft/hard)ware's existence is to cause harm
and destruction, it is counter-productive to try to apply them.

BTW, including the "zeroth" law of robotics, there are 4 laws.  :->

-CB








      parent reply	other threads:[~1999-01-20  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-01-20  0:00 Ethics & Isaac Asimov G.M. Wallace
1999-01-20  0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-20  0:00   ` Marin David Condic
1999-01-20  0:00     ` Larry Elmore
1999-01-20  0:00       ` Marin David Condic
1999-01-21  0:00     ` robert_dewar
1999-01-20  0:00 ` Carl Bauman [this message]
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