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Asimov missed out on a rule: don't hack the ground you're standing on

• bdamm 21d ago
  Oh how I wish Asimov could be alive to witness today's actual AIs and the cavalier attitude towards his "3 rules". If there is any author doing good work along these lines, actually good writing and not the smoking trash that is 99% of content being published on pulp these days, I'd love to read them.
  • chuckadams 21d ago
    Every story in _I, Robot_ was about how one or more of the Laws of Robotics went wrong, and Asimov himself referred to the laws as hooks for “shaggy dog stories”
    • bdamm 21d ago
      Indeed, it's just that since truth is both stranger than and has caught up with fiction, the grounds from which Laws of Robotics emerged is so much more fertile and more urgent now. It's absolutely clear that the 3-LoR is never going to apply universally. Asimov also never imagined an AI being independent from a robot per se, nor did he imagine we'd all have an AI portal in our pockets. I'm not sure he imagined the universality of cybersecurity vulnerabilities, either. I'd love to read what he would write knowing about these possiblities now.