Petition: Ensure that all military drones are Three Laws Safe

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It's been a long time since I read any of Asimov's work... but didn't the stories conclude that the Three Laws were ultimately both unworkable and inadequate? I remember a zeroth law being added in (a robot must act in the general interests of humanity as its top priority).

I think the petition is great as a debate starter, but lousy as a prescription for public policy.

It was intended as a humorous debate starter... but you're right, the logical conclusion of the 3 Laws in "I, Robot" was that humanity had to be removed from control and curated by the governing AI for the robots.

Not that drones are capapble of anything like that level of AI... I just thought it was an amusing way to draw attention to the drone issue.

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