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Why Robots Will Kill Us All

Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics Don’t Work

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Artificial intelligence rising up and taking over the world is a staple of science fiction, from I, Robot to The Terminator to The Mitchells vs. The Machines. Often our robot overlords are actually well-intentioned. The conflict in the plot arises from tension in their programming, namely the difficulty…