{"375551":{"#nid":"375551","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ethical trap: robot paralysed by choice of who to save","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022infuse\u0022\u003ECAN we teach a robot to be good? Fascinated by the idea, roboticist Alan Winfield of Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the UK built an ethical trap for a robot \u2013 and was stunned by the machine\u0027s response.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022infuse\u0022\u003EIn an experiment, Winfield and his colleagues programmed a robot to prevent other automatons \u2013 acting as proxies for humans \u2013 from falling into a hole. This is a simplified version of Isaac Asimov\u0027s fictional First Law of Robotics \u2013 a robot must not allow a human being to come to harm.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-09 17:53:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:23:52","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22329863.700-ethical-trap-robot-paralysed-by-choice-of-who-to-save.html#.VBbevRaaHIZ","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-14T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}}}