Slides for presentation given at Bay Area AI Meetup on March 22, 2009.

1. CASCIO’S LAWS
OF ROBOTICS
BUILDING INTELLIGENCE IN AN
UNCERTAIN WORLD
Saturday, March 21, 2009

2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI
ROBOT
Saturday, March 21, 2009

3. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI
ROBOT
AUTONOMOUS CREATED INTELLIGENCE
Saturday, March 21, 2009

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5. THE
SINGULARITY
IS
NEAR?
Saturday, March 21, 2009

6. THE
SINGULARITY
IS
IRRELEVANT
(At least for purposes of this talk)
Saturday, March 21, 2009

7. These laws are just as important for iRobot...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

8. As for I, Robot.
Saturday, March 21, 2009

9. Artistic portrayals are both a REFLECTION OF
and a WAY OF SHAPING our culture.
Saturday, March 21, 2009

10. Artistic portrayals are both a REFLECTION OF
and a WAY OF SHAPING our culture.
Two narratives dominate the representations
of autonomous created intelligences.
Saturday, March 21, 2009

11. HUBRIS.
Monstrous
results
from trying
to PLAY GOD.
Saturday, March 21, 2009

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14. ASPIRATION TO
HUMANITY.
A desire to
be HUMAN,
at any cost.
Saturday, March 21, 2009

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17. But the AUTONOMOUS CREATED INTELLIGENCES
we devise are unlikely to fit in either category.
They’ll make us ask ourselves entirely new
questions.
Will we like the answers we get?
Saturday, March 21, 2009

18. 5 LAWS OF ROBOTICS
Saturday, March 21, 2009

19. 5 LAWS OF ROBOTICS
Not Laws for Robots (and AI)
Laws for Roboticists (and AI engineers)
Saturday, March 21, 2009

20. 5 LAWS OF ROBOTICS
Law #1: RESPONSIBILITY
Law #2: POWER
Law #3: LIABILITY
Law #4: RIGHTS
Law #5: EMPATHY
Saturday, March 21, 2009

21. 5 LAWS OF ROBOTICS
LAW #1: RESPONSIBILITY
CREATION HAS
CONSEQUENCES
Saturday, March 21, 2009

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23. 5 LAWS OF ROBOTICS
LAW #2: POWER
POLITICS MATTERS
Saturday, March 21, 2009

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25. 5 LAWS OF ROBOTICS
LAW #3: LIABILITY
IT’S YOUR FAULT
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28. 5 LAWS OF ROBOTICS
LAW #4: RIGHTS
NO SUCH THING AS A
HAPPY SLAVE
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31. 5 LAWS OF ROBOTICS
LAW #5: EMPATHY
DON’T KICK THE ROBOT
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34. 5 LAWS OF ROBOTICS
Law #1: RESPONSIBILITY
Law #2: POWER
Law #3: LIABILITY
Law #4: RIGHTS
Law #5: EMPATHY
Saturday, March 21, 2009

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