{"374801":{"#nid":"374801","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Death by Robot","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp id=\u0022story-continues-1\u0022 class=\u0022story-body-text story-content\u0022 data-para-count=\u0022299\u0022 data-total-count=\u0022299\u0022\u003EImagine it\u2019s a Sunday in the not-too-distant future. An elderly woman named Sylvia is confined to bed and in pain after breaking two ribs in a fall. She is being tended by a helper robot; let\u2019s call it Fabulon. Sylvia calls out to Fabulon asking for a dose of painkiller. What should Fabulon do?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022story-body-text story-content\u0022 data-para-count=\u0022504\u0022 data-total-count=\u0022803\u0022\u003EThe coders who built Fabulon have programmed it with a set of instructions: The robot must not hurt its human. The robot must do what its human asks it to do. The robot must not administer medication without first contacting its supervisor for permission. On most days, these rules work fine. On this Sunday, though, Fabulon cannot reach the supervisor because the wireless connection in Sylvia\u2019s house is down. Sylvia\u2019s voice is getting louder, and her requests for pain meds become more insistent.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-09 16:15:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:23:54","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Would never be part of any organization that would have me as a member","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/11\/magazine\/death-by-robot.html","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}