Thanks for writing. We as a species need to talk more about this.

What's the goal in requiring the first SMI to detect other SMI being developed but take no action beyond detection? Or did you mean to say that it should detect other SMI under development and then report those projects to whatever regulatory authority is overseeing SMI?

Also, perhaps a better framework for a "friendly" SMI than Asimov’s zeroeth law is the "Coherent Extrapolated Volition" model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligenc...). Nick Bostrom and many others believe this may be the most workable safeguard.