Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Robot Uprising Watch: 6 ways to build robots that won't harm us.

New Scientist understands that robots will one day massacre or enslave humanity. They've come up with six ways to create robots that won't do so, but as we all know... robots find a way.

Here's the article and briefly, the six tenets of safe robot construction, along with their likelihood of success:

1. Keep them in low-risk situations.
2. Do not give them weapons.
3. Give them rules like Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.
4. Program robots with principles.
5. Educate robots like children.
6. Make machines master emotion.

2 comments:

Larissa said...

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die. "

Adam Coozer said...

+1 Rutger Hauer