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Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull' (www.cnbc.com)
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Related: Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks saw this coming: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/why-irobots-founder-wont-go-within-10-feet-of-todays-walking-robots/

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[–] 52 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Only a matter of time now. And we don't even have the laws of robotics to protect us.

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    A huge point of I, Robot is that there isn't some exact instructions you can give robots that will have them always protect humanity. They have an inherent danger in their literalism

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    cant allow regulations of robotics or ai, because peter thiel says regulations will speed up the coming of the anti-christ, bud

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Yeah it's crazy. I grew up reading about how the "three laws of robotics" are still imperfect, contradictory and filled with loopholes.

    But these sci-fi worlds at least tried, imperfect as they are. Turns out IRL no one gives a fuck.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    IRL we aren't anywhere near the point where the laws of robotics can be used as they require an AI intelligent enough to understand them first.

    Just the first law: "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm" requires something that can process the difference between a robot and a human, the concept of causality, what actions or events may or may not harm a human, and use those to actively decide of it should do something or not.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I have an AR-15 and armor piercing green-tips. Weird enough, I only have the green tips because they were the cheapest option at the time. At 100' they drill press a perfect hole in 1/4" steel.

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