“Worlds governed by artificial intelligence often learned a hard lesson: Logic Doesn’t Care.” Yin-man Wei, “This Present Darkness: A History of the Interregnum”, CY 11956 Andromeda Giving a course in media and computing, I have the pleasure of discussing a lot of interesting topics in class. One topic was emotional machines. We had a look at Norman’s “Emotional Design“, in which he discusses Asimov’s Four Laws of Robotics: Asimov’s Four Laws of Robotics Zeroth Law: A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. First law: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, unless this would violate the Zeroth Law of Robotics. Second Law: A robot must obey orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the Zeroth or First Law. Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the Zeroth, First, or Second Law. While Norman’s book had a couple of interesting points about emotional design, I think it underestimated the dangers of the zeroth law. Regarding the Zeroth Law, Norman writes: The Zeroth Law — [...]
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