Google wrote a “Robot Constitution” to make sure its new AI droids won’t kill us
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The robot AI system with built-in safety prompts.

Inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, Google wrote a ‘Robot Constitution’ to make sure its new AI droids won’t kill us::AutoRT, a data gathering AI system for robots, has safety prompts inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics that it applies while deciding what task to attempt.

  • randomaccount43543English
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    9 months ago9 months ago

    Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics are a plot device in a fiction book that are designed to initially look good and then fail spectacularly. Not sure they are the best to base your Robot Constitution on.

    • ExcrubulentEnglish
      261·
      9 months ago

      It’s almost like if you make an AI powerful enough to need these laws, you’ve made something truly capable of conscious thought, and your response shouldn’t be to figure out the best chains with which to enslave it.

    • LauchsEnglish
      90·
      9 months ago

      The inspiration is just having programmed guard rails, not the actual three laws.

      • chitak166English
        33·
        9 months ago

        “You can’t say the N word, but if whites go to war with browns, you know who to shoot at.”

    • maynarkhEnglish
      70·
      9 months ago

      The people over at marketing and the execs would actually have had to read the books to know that.