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Comment by boxed

5 hours ago

Isn't it a good sign? The Laws of Robotics seems like a slam dunk baseline, and the issues and subtleties of it has been very thoughtfully mapped out in Asimovs short story collection.

The whole point of those books was to explore the places where those laws produced unexpected behaviour, so they are clearly not sufficient. I would argue those books are actually about demonstrating that it is very hard to build an ethical system out of rules.