{"id":1952,"date":"2017-08-11T05:47:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T12:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2017-08-11T05:47:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T12:47:06","slug":"using-robots-ethically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/?p=1952","title":{"rendered":"Using Robots Ethically"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1942, science<\/a> fiction writer Isaac Asimov proposed his three laws of robotics. These were to guide robot-human interactions.<\/p>\n

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  1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.<\/li>\n
  2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.<\/li>\n
  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Today researchers at the\u00c2\u00a0University of Hertfordshire in the UK have developed a concept called Empowerment. It is to help robots protect and serve humans, while keeping the robots safe as well.<\/p>\n

    The concept of acting ethically is difficult to dilute to a computer program which will guide the behavior of a robot. Public opinion swings from enthusiasm about progress in AI to outright fear that the robots will take over the world one day. It is therefore important to have a clear understanding of what a robot should and should not be able to do.<\/p>\n

    Scientist Christoph Salge said,\u00c2\u00a0Empowerment means being in a state where you have the greatest potential influence on the world you can perceive.\u00c2\u00a0So, for a simple robot, this might be getting safely back to its power station, and not getting stuck, which would limit its options for movement. For a more futuristic, human-like robot this would not just include movement, but could incorporate a variety of parameters, resulting in more human-like drives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In 1942, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov proposed his three laws of robotics. These were to guide robot-human interactions. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}