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Asimov’s Laws: Current Progress

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Commercial and military decision-makers frequently express concerns about fully autonomous agents. There is an inherent distrust of anything intelligent not under human control. What can we, as agent researchers, do to alleviate these concerns? Ethically, we should have a sense of responsibility regarding the types of artifacts that we release into society. Isaac Asimov, the science fiction writer, addressed such issues in his Laws of Robotics [1].

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA

    Diana F. Gordon-Spears

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Loyola College in Maryland, MD 21210, Baltimore, USA

    Michael G. Hinchey

  2. Advanced Architectures and Automation Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD 20771, Greenbelt, USA

    James L. Rash

  3. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD 20771, Greenbelt, USA

    Walter F. Truszkowski

  4. Advanced Technology Laboratories, Lockheed Martin Corporation, VA 22203, Arlington, USA

    Christopher Rouff

  5. Computer Science Department, University ofWyoming, WY 82070, Laramie, USA

    Diana Gordon-Spears

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Gordon-Spears, D.F. (2003). Asimov’s Laws: Current Progress. In: Hinchey, M.G., Rash, J.L., Truszkowski, W.F., Rouff, C., Gordon-Spears, D. (eds) Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems. FAABS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2699. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45133-4_23

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