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    Ethan Mollick on Asimov Laws and AI Morality

    Wharton professor Ethan Mollick posted that Asimov's laws illustrate limits of rule-based AI ethics.

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    Ethan Mollick posted on X that Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics do not work for actual AI morality. He stated the failure demonstrates why rule-based approaches fall short. Mollick noted Asimov designed his stories around robots finding ways around the laws, which served the plots. The post stands as his observation on the topic with no further confirmation or response detailed in the packet.

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    @emollickIts kind of a bummer that Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics do not work for actual AI morality. But the failure shows why rule-based approaches won't work. (and Asimov wanted to write stories about how robots got around the Laws, so their failure was a good thing for his plots)
    @Dan_Jeffries1It's not actually a bummer at all that Asimov's Rules of Robots don't work as robot rules, because it is not what people think it is. It's a construct created by Asimov to *deliberately create conflicts in morality* for his robot characters. People have been mistaking a writer's construct for an actual workable set of rules for robots ever since.

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    @emollickIts kind of a bummer that Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics do not work for actual AI morality. But the failure shows why rule-based approaches won't work. (and Asimov wanted to write stories about how robots got around the Laws, so their failure was a good thing for his plots)
    @Dan_Jeffries1It's not actually a bummer at all that Asimov's Rules of Robots don't work as robot rules, because it is not what people think it is. It's a construct created by Asimov to *deliberately create conflicts in morality* for his robot characters. People have been mistaking a writer's construct for an actual workable set of rules for robots ever since.