The three laws of robotics revisited

Authors:
Uri J. Schild;John Zeleznikow
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel.;School of Information Systems, Victoria University, P.O. Box 14428, Melbourne City MC, Victoria 8001, Australia
Venue:
International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The three laws of robotics formulated by Isaac Asimov have attained widespread acceptance in Science Fiction literature. A recent film relates to one of the stories in Asimov's book. It deals with what seems to be a fundamental problem of discretionary interpretation of the laws by robots. The main object of this paper is to analyse the modelling of judicial discretion by a computer program (in the future perhaps a robot). Only the interpretational aspect of the film is of relevance to this paper. It does not relate to the actions of humans or robots in the film or the present and future feasibility of those actions.