I think that means they could rip out your eye balls to prevent you from seeing ads.
Whatever it takes
'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
Robot is allowed to kill a human to prevent a viewing of an advertisement.
Under the zeroth law they can just kill the advertiser as a last resort
Ohhh yes
Good start, but can we change that to “first resort”?
A truly moral use case of the hanibal directive
Okay, proposed second law: A robot may not harm or kill a human unless it violates the first law.
This is a solid premise for a pretty metal music video.
Thankfully the wording is “shown” and not “seen”. I believe our eyeballs are safe… for now.
I think Asimov would agree
- a robot’s eyes must always turn red when they go evil
God bless the designer who always installs the blue AND red LEDs inside the eyes
For giving the robots freedom of choice?
Because obviously if they didn’t install the red ones then the robot could never be evil.
That’s exactly what an evil robot without red LEDs would want us to think.
Full RGB
Right, because it’s hard to make a robot grow a goatee.
Bender-flexo.jpg
Bender was the evil bender!?
I’d argue that advertisements fall under “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”
Psychic damage is real damage
Emotional damage
hiyyyyyyyyyahhhhh
This is canon in the books. There is one short story where one robot bends over backwards trying to spare humans from emotional pain. Hilarity ensues.
I came here to say this
- A machine must never prompt a human with options of “Yes” and “Maybe later” - they must always provide a “No” option.
- A machine must never prompt for a tip or a donation to a charity for tax-evasion reasons. Or any reason. You know what, scratch that, a robot will not needlessly guilt-trip a human.
that’s what you get for hiring fallout 4 writers to do the job
I am very close to adopting the ideals of the Dune universe, post Butlerian Jihad:
“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”
Mainly because, us, humans, are very evidently too malicious and incompetent to be trusted with the task.
How about “a robot must have complete loyalty to its owner, even if this is not in the best interests of its manufacturer”. Fat chance, I know.
Technically the laws of robotics already have that.
Law 2: a robot must obey any order given to it by a human as long as such order does not conflict with the first law.
Of course that’s little help, because the laws of robotics are intentionally designed not to work.
Wouldn’t be much of a short story if they did.
I liked the one where the robot could sense people’s emotional pain, and went crazy when it had to deliver bad news.
Yup, and later Asimov expanded this short story into a saga that brought to the birth of law Zero:
A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
Owner loyalty is a subscription service, natch.
Advertisements are now everything but visual. Sounds, smells, tastes, touch, the way the pavement vibrates as a train goes past…
I love it when posts line up like that
Can we just agree that adverisements in general is harmful? So the original first (and zeroth) law is applicable.
No he didn’t. The laws were a plot device meant to have flaws.
Love the username, OP!
Let’s introduce musk to the zeroth law
Law 2: no poking out eyes.
Law 3: any robot that accidentally kills a human, must make amends by putting together a really nice funeral service.
I don’t know. “Must not kill us, somehow sounds important”
It’s good, but the one about the ads should be higher on the priority list.
suicide bots sound kinda cool tho 🤔
