We create robots in our image, intentionally making them more and more like ourselves. Making them look more like us, act more like us, think more like us, be more like us. One day, they will be many times more intelligent than we are. If we are going to endow them with human traits, human appearance, [...]
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No Comments »“In June, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) agreed to expand flights of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, along the Texas-Mexico border for surveillance purposes. Although unmanned aircraft have been used extensively by the military in Afghanistan and Iraq, the FAA has been hesitant to issue flying rights for the pilotless vehicles in the U.S. other [...]
Actually the hospital where it happened is getting sued, as are the two surgeons who were controlling the da Vinci robot, when it cut her ureters in error. “The suit, which echoes other cases across the country, comes amid concerns that some hospitals’ credentialing standards for surgeons who use the cutting-edge machine are too lax.” [...]
“If you build artificial intelligence but don’t think about its moral sense or create a conscious sense that feels regret for doing something wrong, then technically it is a psychopath”
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Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long [...]
