In the 20st century:

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 the 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.

Isaac Asimov; 1942

Reference:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

In the 21st century:

1. The visual appearance of a robot makes a promise about what it can do and how smart it is. It needs to deliver or slightly overdeliver on that promise or it will not be accepted.

2. When robots and people coexist in the same spaces, the robots must not take away from people’s agency, particularly when the robots are failing, as inevitably they will at times.

3. Technologies for robots need 10+ years of steady improvement beyond lab demos of the target tasks to mature to low cost and to have their limitations characterized well enough that they can deliver 99.9 percent of the time. Every 10 more years gets another 9 in reliability.

Rodney Brooks; 06-Aug-2024

Reference: https://spectrum.ieee.org/rodney-brooks-three-laws-robotics

-- Don Cohoon

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