Why Asimov's Three Laws Cannot Make Robots Safe

Computerphile · Explainer · 8 min · 2015 · YouTube title: Why Asimov's Laws of Robotics Don't Work - Computerphile

Why it's here

Pointed to in AI safety debates as a short explanation of why encoding human values as simple rules is so hard.

What it covers

Rob Miles explains for Computerphile why simple rule sets like Asimov's Three Laws cannot make robots and AI safe. Terms like harm and human are too ambiguous to specify precisely.