writing help: Describe in writing a situation where the Three Laws of Robotics* all have to be applied.

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Describe in writing a situation where the Three Laws of Robotics* all have to be applied.

The situation you choose to describe should preferably not be a sequence of events, rather a single situation where a robot following the Laws would have to “internally” go through each Law to determine what course of action to take. In your description explain the logic steps the robot would go through in applying the Laws and arriving at its conclusion. You should refer to the examples given in class for ideas, but do not copy those examples.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_La...

The length of your essay should be between 100 and 300 words.

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Commander Ikari 80 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (2 minutes after post)

Do your own Goddamn work.

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R.A.M 2 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (11 minutes after post)

Do you realise these laws are fiction and cannot be clearly defined.
Well, a scenario where all three laws are put to use is to oder a robot to try to switch off a system where the only switch is in a hazard suit of a human being who is in the hazardous enviorment to both the human and the robot.

Bogdan (Gone) 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (56 minutes after post)

What about the zeroth law? There are 4 laws of robotics.

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spiratec9 19 #
Burnaby, BC, CA | 1 year, 1 month ago (56 minutes after post)

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Good luck designing a robot like that.
If you get too close to an indusrial robot doing its work you will be hurt.

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Anonymous #
1 year, 1 month ago (57 minutes after post)

Okay, here’s a situation. An alien from another planet comes to earth and demands to see the President. When he meets the President, he orders that “the three laws of robotics be applied.” What else can the President do but apply them?

Hope this helps.

Bogdan (Gone) 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (1 hour, 1 minute after post)

A robot is holding onto a rope that is the only thing stopping a big spike ball from dropping on a person and is ordered to jump off a cliff.

Law 3 is broken because it is commanded and Law 2 is broken because he has it has to maintain hold of the rope.

Now, if the robot would stop a super villain by doing what he was ordered, he could kill the human because of the zeroth law.

0. A robot may not injure a humanity or, through inaction, allow a humanity to come to harm.

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0) A robot may not injure a humanity or, through inaction, allow a humanity to come to harm.
1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Suppose that you have packed a briefcase with explosives and a remote controlled detonator. Then you call your robot and give him the briefcase and a sealed letter. You then direct the robots to walk across the street carrying the briefcase and hand the letter to Mr. Jones who is standing over there. The robots follows your orders and walks across the street. As he hands the letter to Mr. Jones, you explode the bomb by remote control.
An robot comes upon two humans fighting. What does he do? By interfering, he may injure one of them, but by not interfering, they may injure each other.
Several robots are working around a downtown building when the fire alarm sounds. There are people in the building who may be burned up. Do the robots all run into the building to try to save the humans - and end up burned up in the fire? How will the robots know if they have rescued all the occupants? Do they extract dead bodies before they get burned up?They will start running and rescuing all the people ,before the fire fighters come.
Several robots are walking across a bridge when they see a human jump off the bridge into the water below. Do all the robots jump off the bridge to try to rescue the human? What if the robots themselves can’t swim or are too heavy to float?All the robots will rescue the person and they could float because they have some special kind of feet or legs .
A robot is holding onto a rope that is the only thing stopping a big spike ball from dropping on a person and is ordered to jump off a cliff.
Now, if the robot would stop a super villain by doing what he was ordered, he could kill the human because of the zeroth law.
One robot adds poison to a glass of milk, having been told that the milk will be disposed of later; then a second robot serves a human the milk, unaware that it is poisoned.

0) A robot may not injure a humanity or, through inaction, allow a humanity to come to harm.   	
1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Suppose that you have packed a briefcase with explosives and a remote controlled detonator. Then you call your robot and give him the briefcase and a sealed letter. You then direct the robots to walk across the street carrying the briefcase and hand the letter to Mr. Jones who is standing over there. The robots follows your orders and walks across the street. As he hands the letter to Mr. Jones, you explode the bomb by remote control.
        An robot comes upon two humans fighting. What does he do? By interfering, he may injure one of them, but by not interfering, they may injure each other.
        Several robots are working around a downtown building when the fire alarm sounds. There are people in the building who may be burned up. Do the robots all run into the building to try to save the humans - and end up burned up in the fire? How will the robots know if they have rescued all the occupants?  Do they extract dead bodies before they get burned up?They will start running and rescuing all the people ,before the fire fighters come.
        Several robots are walking across a bridge when they see a human jump off the bridge into the water below. Do all the robots jump off the bridge to try to rescue the human? What if the robots themselves can't swim or are too heavy to float?All the robots will rescue the person and they could float because they have some special kind of feet or legs .		
	A robot is holding onto a rope that is the only thing stopping a big spike ball from dropping on a person and is ordered to jump off a cliff. 
	Now, if the robot would stop a super villain by doing what he was ordered, he could kill the human because of the zeroth law.
	One robot adds poison to a glass of milk, having been told that the milk will be disposed of later; then a second robot serves a human the milk, unaware that it is poisoned.

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