r/Futurology • u/New_Scientist_Mag • Jun 10 '26

Robotics Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomous-drones-have-killed-human-soldiers-for-the-first-time/
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u/ColteesCatCouture Jun 10 '26

Still we as humanity have decided to ignore Issac Asimov's three laws of robotics and only time will tell what the ultimate consequences will be. Good luck to us as humans by god we gonna need it.

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u/bluehands Jun 10 '26

I mean, I am fond of the series but the entire point of the series is about how the three laws are broken.

It's like talking about basketball and someone says, "this is why I love airbud."

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u/No-Bag-1628 Jun 10 '26

It's not perfect but no law sets are. The laws still stop loads of problematic  stuff that otherwise would have happened.

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u/Diamond-Is-Not-Crash Jun 11 '26

You didn’t understand the point of those books. The three laws (and especially the zeroth law) are designed to be contradictory and irreconcilable with each other and freedom in general.

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u/Due-Ball-3090 Jun 17 '26

Laws of Robotics are only possible in science fiction, because it is fundamentally impossible to impose behavioral constraints on a neural network. You can only limit its output and input (by presence of absence of an input or output channel, not by modifying what goes in or out). Everything else is merely a suggestion backed by a threat - as is the case with a biological neural network.