Timeline for Do the Machines in "The Matrix" Adhere to the Three Laws of Robotics?
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| Mar 3, 2013 at 3:17 | comment | added | Thom Brannan | @naxa: if you're talking the Three Laws, you have to do it in the context of individual humans. The answer citing the Zeroth Law, as formulated by the super-robot R. Daneel Olivaw, is the best answer. Citing Asimov, you could trick a robot into killing a human, but as soon as the robot realizes what it's done, its positronic brain is ruined. That would make soldier robots like honey bees when they should be like wasps. | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 18:19 | comment | added | n611x007 | The question states that it doesn't mean individual humans, but humans in "bulk", eg. do the machines actually try to comply with the (somehow tricked) laws by not simply wiping the entire in-matrix humanity. I'd add that especially when they could actually survive without them. I think this was not yet reflected in the answer. | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 18:14 | comment | added | n611x007 | This is not necessarily true. The three laws could be tricked if the recognition of what a "human being" is is done inside the robot. If humans programmed them, the programming may be imperfect, if it was done with the help of complex non-AI machines, the exact programming may have been not completely supervised. If the definition of a "human being" is connected with its level of self-awaraness, the 1st and 3rd law can easily interfere, resulting in a non-determined state. | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 17:41 | vote | accept | Teknophilia | ||
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| Jun 25, 2012 at 14:02 | history | answered | Chris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |