Timeline for The Turing-Asimov Dilemma
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| Jan 3, 2023 at 17:01 | comment | added | Barmar | @Luaan Good point. If the robot is given conflicting orders by different humans, it must resolve this conflict, so there must be a way of assigning priority (it could be that the owner gets priority, or maybe simple "first come, first served"). Like all human-devised laws, the Laws of Robotics are tricky and have loopholes. | |
| Jan 3, 2023 at 11:13 | comment | added | Luaan | That's not how the laws work, though. Robots don't have to follow all orders of arbitrary humans. If you work with how the robots work in the actual stories (and not the popular version of the Three Laws), the solution to your test dilemma is very simple - the robot will be instructed not to reveal that it is a robot. The instructor's orders have a higher priority than the testee. The only thing the Three Laws as written reflect is a certain hierarchy, and even then, not a strict hierarchy. It's just marketing fluff, to keep people from fearing the robots, really. | |
| Jan 3, 2023 at 5:13 | comment | added | Barmar | The OP seems to presume that the robot's programming is AI. And I think Asimov's stories present them that way. | |
| Jan 3, 2023 at 2:06 | comment | added | Hudjefa | Interesting observation. A robot is not the sake as AI. What if they were the same, what then? | |
| Jan 2, 2023 at 19:01 | history | answered | Barmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |