“You keep using that example. I do not think it means in what you think it means.”

(Alternatively, per Mencken, “[T]here is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.”1)

Prompted by a couple of recent letters to the editor in the Washington Post, referring to Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics:

Asimov’s three laws of robotics are:

  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 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.

Asimov recognized and dealt with the challenges and dangers of AI that others are just now becoming aware of.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/13/brooks-robinson-orioles-mlb-speaker-day-game/
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