Why is that, whenever a novel/film follows the 3 laws of Robotics, the Robots always end up going rogue?
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Question by Joe Schulz: Why is that, whenever a novel/film follows the 3 laws of Robotics, the Robots always end up going rogue?
Are the 3 laws flawed, and therefore unable to be followed? Or is it merely because it makes for good story?
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Star wars has robots and never mentions the 3 laws. And the Robots never go rogue, from what I know. As a counter-example.
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They’re called plot complications, and without them, there wouldn’t be a story.
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The Three Laws of Robotics were dreamed up by the author Isaac Asimov in the his book of nine short stories entitled “I, Robot”, all three first appearing in the story “Runaround”. Other scifi authors later adopted the Three Laws for use in their own works, but they were not used for the Star Wars robots.
Robots going rogue and getting round the Three Laws is just a useful plot device to make the story or film more exciting.
Well i suppose there are always ways to get around things, and loopholes etc. And without things going wrong it’s not very interesting.
Because those were novel. In novel only human and there is no place for robots.
Conscious beings can’t abide by the 3 laws. Consciousness involves a self awareness that says “I as an individual” is important and more important than other beings.
According to Dr Asimov’s memoirs, in his talks with John Campbell, in which they hammered out the basic concepts of the robot stories, they worried that people might be frightened by the idea of robots. (It was about 1920 and society was much simpler then). So they made sure that the humans always came out firmly on top in any story complication.
In some of his later works Dr Asimov refined his conceptions of the robots and their laws somewhat (it was a more sophisticated world by that time) but he was locked into the laws he had already created. He did add to them, so eventually there were four Laws of Robotics, but in his stories this was kept secret even though the plots of two of his later novels were based on the ramifications of the “Zeroth” law of robotics.
…novel/film are fantasies that illustrate the darker side of man…
In “Forbidden Planet,” Robbie doesn’t go rogue, despite following the three laws (or, at least, he follows two of them; the third is never tested in the movie).
Anyway, the whole idea that following certain rules can lead to unintended consequences is a common theme in fiction. Asimov’s Three Laws are no exception. If a writer thinks he can find a loophole, he’ll exploit it. For example, the movie “I, Robot.”
As for other forms of fiction, I might also point out that the Terminator series never mentions the three laws, and nobody’s able to stop Skynet from launcing a global nuclear attack. Arguably, it’s a matter of programming: perhaps Asimov’s laws could be one scheme to use to keep the robots in line, and perhaps the programmers of the robots in Star Wars would have used a different scheme that had just as good of an effect.