according to the laws of robotics, robots can’t hurt humans?
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Author: Charity Woods
Author: Charity Woods
Question by : according to the laws of robotics, robots can’t hurt humans?
but, how do the robots know that they are inflicting pain? what sort of input tells them that they are causing pain instead of some other intense emotion?
Helen- that was exactly my allusion 
I was more interested, theoretically, in how one might program a robot to gauge human reactions.
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Answer by ccrobe
Thats only in movies. Robots hurt humans all the time in various industrial accidents.
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You need to read I Robot by Issac Asimov
You are absolutely right – the obedience of robots to these so-called laws is only as good as their programming, including their perceptual programming. As actual experience is telling us, a robot can just as easily be programmed to select and hurt human beings, with extreme prejudice in the case of UAVs in Afghanistan (for example).
I like Asimov, but his laws are totally arbitrary, and there is no sign of such principles actually being adopted by the manufacturers or users of robots.
No, it’s a robot may not harm a human, may not by inaction allow a human to be harmed, and must obey all orders from humans that don’t conflict with the first two laws.
It’s more about physical harm, like a robot may not smash a human into bits or rip off their arm.
In the case of pain, the input that would make the robot stop is when the human says “Ow! Stop that, robot!” Then the robot must stop in accordance with the 3rd law. Unless some flaw in its programming is making it think it must cause the human pain to protect it from harm. Suppose someone had gangrene and the only thing around was a robot with no anesthetic. The robot would amputate their arm, causing lots of pain but preventing harm.
In one of the robots novels, they did something like that. R Daneel Olivaw did things that doomed the Earth to destruction, cause he figured it was for humanity’s own good.
Anyhow, they’re not laws of robotics, they’re just stories.