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Foreseeing a future in which intelligent robots would be commonplace, Issac Asimov proposed that every robot be irrevocably implanted with Three Laws of Robotics:
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.
What might a modern day equivalent of Asimov’s laws of robotics look like to avoid a dystopian future? Here, guided by Asimov’s three law of robotics, I propose a possible formulation of Three Laws of AI: 1) An AI must not directly or indirectly harm or deceive a human being, nor act in a way that supports an unlawful or unethical activity;
2) An AI must obey the lawful and ethical orders given to it by a human being except where such orders would conflict with the first law;
3) An AI may operate autonomously as long as its autonomous operations do not conflict with the first or second law.
There are many implications, including that these guardrails would prevent AI being used as a judge or jury in a criminal trial and prevent lethal autonomous weapons being directed against human beings. They would disallow an AI-powered humanoid robot or an AI avatar from being so lifelike that a reasonable human being would not know that he or she is interacting with a robot or an avatar, and they would prevent AI from being used to generate creative outputs such as books, music, videos, images and podcasts that claim to have been created by a human being. They would prevent AI from suggesting suicide or advising on murder.
- Author: Alan Finkel, The Guardian
Alan Finkel AC is founder and executive chair of Proudly Human. He was formerly the chancellor of Monash University and Australia’s chief scientist and is the author of Getting to Zero (2021) and Powering Up (2023).
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