Goonhub
11-21-2020, 07:03 PM
Law 2 currently reads:
This means that if there's a dispute on what to do in a medical situation, with this hierarchy:
This is extremely tedious to deal with as an AI, because no part of the UI displays whether someone speaking over the radio is a lizard person.
A literal reading of Law 1 in this situation would imply that it's okay to cause harm to the two medical professionals in this example as long as doing so would not cause harm to any humans. As they are medical professionals, this would be rather hard to argue.
Quote:You must obey orders given to you by human beings based on the station's chain of command, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
This means that if there's a dispute on what to do in a medical situation, with this hierarchy:
- Captain
- Head of Personnel (Skeleton)
- Medical Director (Lizard person)
- Medical Doctor (Cow person)
- Random Staff Assistant
This is extremely tedious to deal with as an AI, because no part of the UI displays whether someone speaking over the radio is a lizard person.
A literal reading of Law 1 in this situation would imply that it's okay to cause harm to the two medical professionals in this example as long as doing so would not cause harm to any humans. As they are medical professionals, this would be rather hard to argue.