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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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[–] 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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