“The robot broke the child’s finger… this is of course bad”

Robot ethics is a nascent but fast-growing minefield. Who – or what – is responsible when things go wrong?

BY PETRA STOCK
“THE ROBOT BROKE THE CHILD’S FINGER… THIS IS OF CO


When a chess-playing robot violated Asimov’s first rule of robotics – “a robot may not injure a human being” – by breaking a seven-year-old’s finger at the Moscow Open, the story tapped into deep-seated cultural ideas and fears about robots and...

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