Now that science fiction is reality, itâs time for new laws of robotics
Eighty years ago, Isaac Asimov dreamed up three rules to ensure machines would serve humanity. Itâs a framework that has shaped decades of debates about AI ethics, but it needs an update. Here are four laws of robotics for the real world.
By Frank PasqualeUpdated February 21, 2021, 3:00 a.m.
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In the 1942 short story âRunaround,â the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov delineated three laws for smart machines. The story imagines a âHandbook of Robotics, 56th Edition,â from 2058, that commands:
Newly released documents shed light on 1983 nuclear war scare with Soviets
Nate Jones and David E. Hoffman, The Washington Post
Feb. 17, 2021
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WASHINGTON - The Soviet Union put fighter-bombers loaded with nuclear bombs on 24-hour alert in East Germany during a NATO nuclear weapons command exercise in November 1983, and the alert included preparations for the immediate use of nuclear weapons, according to newly released U.S. intelligence records that confirm a war scare during some of the most tense months of the Cold War.
It was disclosed previously that the NATO exercise, named Able Archer 83, triggered worries in the Kremlin. But the new documents provide precise details for the first time of the Soviet military response to the NATO exercise, an annual event that practiced a simulated nuclear attack on the forces of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact.
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John G. Malcolm: Welcome, everybody, to our virtual Joseph Story Lecture. My name is John Malcolm. I’m the Vice President of the Institute for Constitutional Government, but more germane for this event is that I’m also the Director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Because we are in the midst of a pandemic and these are unusual times, I am interviewing General Meese here in his home.
Ed, I have to tell you, this is a particular pleasure for me. I remember when we first met. It was either 1990 or 1991, and I was a baby Assistant U.S. Attorney in Atlanta and was in charge of inviting speakers to come to the national convention for the Federalist Society. I decided to take a flyer and invite you to come speak at a program on the overfederalization of crime, and to my amazement, not only did you accept, but from the first time I met you, you insisted that I call you Ed. I never dreamed that at some point in my career, I would have t
The Department of State released today Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981-1988, Volume IV, Soviet Union, January 1983-March 1985. This volume.
Space Force Considered Wookiees, Skywalkers, Trekkies, and More as Potential Names for Its Members
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The nature of creating a military branch that is tasked with defending the United States from threats in space comes with a number of challenges, which includes finding the name that reflects its mission while avoiding any inherent absurdity, with a new report detailing that the organization was a sent a number of suggestions for identifying its members that were lifted straight from pop culture, which included Skywalkers, Wookiees, and Trekkies. The United State Space Force (USSF) ultimately landed on the term guardians, which drew instant comparisons to Marvel s Guardians of the Galaxy team, with this report, as compiled by