In order to prevent this sort of thing, Isaac Asimov posed his First Law of Robotics:
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.Or as Terry Pratchett more sensibly completed it:
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm–unless ordered to do so by duly constituted authority.As Lord Vetinari put it,
A hammer can hardly refuse to hit the nail on the head, nor a saw to make moral judgments about the nature of the timber.Far more sensible.
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I thought the 1st DBR was in Japan.
One of the one armed robots failed, and the technician entered the fenced in area defined by its reach.
When he disconnected a hydrolic line the arm lowered crushing him.
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