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One has to wonder, what if a pedophile had an access to nuclear launch codes, and our only hope would be a Claude AI creating some CSAM to distract him from blowing up the world.

But luckily this scenario is already so contrived that it can never happen.

Ok wow, that’s enough HN for today.

Does this person's name rhyme with ■■■■■■ ■■■■■?

The problem with the 3 laws is the suggestion that they would have been universally embedded in all robots.

Some idiot somewhere will decide not to do it and that's enough. I think Asimov sort of admits this when you read how the Solarians changed the definition of "human."

Isn't it a good sign? The Laws of Robotics seems like a slam dunk baseline, and the issues and subtleties of it has been very thoughtfully mapped out in Asimovs short story collection.

The whole point of those books was to explore the places where those laws produced unexpected behaviour, so they are clearly not sufficient. I would argue those books are actually about demonstrating that it is very hard to build an ethical system out of rules.

How else could one possibly approach it?