"Three Laws"-Compliant: Difference between revisions

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'''Sawtooth''': And as we discovered the hard way, it's '''not''' the first thought you want going through a robot's mind when he discovers the facilities building his replacement.

'''Sawtooth''': Especially if that robot's designed to toss asteroids. }}

** ...and any AI with initiative ''will'' find and exploit loopholes, while passively servile ones... yeah, [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1700/fc01629.htm ''that'' can work splendidly] on anything with more complex job than a roomba.

** ...and any AI with initiative ''will'' find and exploit loopholes, while passively servile ones... yeah, ''[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1700/fc01629.htm that]'' can work splendidly on anything with more complex job than a roomba.

** And when they can just follow orders - "[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01047.htm If we each had a single user, I'm sure that would work smoothly.]"

** Of course, all this works properly [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2200/fc02200.htm only as long as other security measures stop tampering with software], and hardware access is the point where security measures traditionally split into "minor delay" and "fool's errand" categories.

* ''[[21st Century Fox (webcomic)|21st Century Fox]]'' has all robots with the Three Laws (though since [[Funny Animal|no one's human]] I expect the first law is slightly different). Unfortunately saying the phrase "[[Bill Clinton|define the word 'is']]", or "[[Richard Nixon|I am not a crook]]" locks AIs out of their own systems and allows anyone from a teenager looking at "nature documentaries" to a suicide bomber to do whatever they want with it.

** Note that the truck and airplane robots hijacked by terrorists regret being unable to comply with the first laws and are often glad when they get shot down before harming anyone.