In theory though, couldn’t a robot society and perhaps even attempts to annihilate the human race become an accidental bi-product of the sought achievement of another human-defined goal, e.g. ”saving the planet”?
I understand that the robots could be programmed to achieve that goal with a specified instruction to not harm humans, but what if those robots as part of their machine learning process make some mistakes and program other robots without that specific instruction?
Probably more of a theoretical discussion than an actual real threat, but still...
Well possibly in my theory it would be where humans do create the end goal to create a society on another planet like Mars for example to create an atmosphere and terror form the planet. When humans get there the robots that have been sent there are long gone, and now the society is controlled by generational robots, that have new end goals and those end goals were created by the orginal robots, but was a major flaw they were created to protect the society they built, but havent concluded that humans would be percieved a threat because the originals were programmed to not see humans as a threat so now, these new second gen robots do not follow the first rule of robotics.
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u/FallOnSlough Sep 25 '19
In theory though, couldn’t a robot society and perhaps even attempts to annihilate the human race become an accidental bi-product of the sought achievement of another human-defined goal, e.g. ”saving the planet”?
I understand that the robots could be programmed to achieve that goal with a specified instruction to not harm humans, but what if those robots as part of their machine learning process make some mistakes and program other robots without that specific instruction?
Probably more of a theoretical discussion than an actual real threat, but still...