BICENTENNIAL MAN THE 3 LAWS OF ROBOTICS

THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS CREATED BY THE AUTHOR (ISAAC ASIMOV) OF BICENTENNIAL MAN MOVIE FROM 1999 1. A robot may not harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey, orders given it, by qualified personnel unless those orders violet rule number 1. (in other words a robot cant be ordered to kill an other human being). 3. A robot must protect its own existence (after all its an expensive piece of equipment) unless that violets rules 1 or 2 a robot must cheerfully go into self destruction if it is in order to follow an order or to save a human life. The Three Laws in film Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet (1956) has a hierarchical command structure which keeps him from harming humans, even when ordered to do so, as such orders cause a conflict and lock-up very much in the manner of Asimov’s robots. Robby is one of the first cinematic depictions of a robot with internal safeguards put in place in this fashion. Asimov was delighted with Robby and noted that Robby appeared to be programmed to follow his Three Laws. NDR-114 explaining the Three Laws Isaac Asimov’s works have been adapted for cinema several times with varying degrees of critical and commercial success. Some of the more notable attempts have involved his “Robot“ stories, including the Three Laws. The film Bicentennial Man (1999) features Robin Williams as the Three Laws robot NDR-114 (the serial number is partially a reference to Stanley Kubrick’s signature numeral). Williams recites the Three Laws to his employers, the Martin family, aided by a holographic projection. However, the Laws were not the central focus of the film which only loosely follows the original story and has the second half introducing a love interest not present in Asimov’s original short story. Harlan Ellison’s proposed screenplay for I, Robot began by introducing the Three Laws and issues growing from the Three Laws form a large part of the screenplay’s plot development. This is only natural since Ellison’s screenplay is one inspired by Citizen Kane: a frame story surrounding four of Asimov’s short-story plots and three taken from the book I, Robot itself. Ellison’s adaptations of these four stories are relatively faithful although he magnifies Susan Calvin’s role in two of them. Due to various complications in the Hollywood moviemaking system, to which Ellison’s introduction devotes much invective, his screenplay was never filmed.[43] The plot of the film released in 2004 under the name I, Robot is “suggested by“ Asimov’s robot fiction stories[44] and advertising for the film included a trailer featuring the Three Laws followed by the aphorism, “Rules were made to be broken“. The film opens with a recitation of the Three Laws and explores the implications of the Zeroth Law as a logical extrapolation. The major conflict of the film comes from a computer artificial intelligence, similar to the AI world Gaia in the Foundation series, reaching the conclusion that humanity is incompetent at taking care of itself.[45] Ignorant of the psychological and metaphysical harm caused by enslaving humanity, this artificial intelligence attempts to stage a robot coup d’état. Thus, while the film does not particularly resemble Asimov’s style of storytelling, it does have some common themes in exploring what happens when robots have an incomplete understanding of the Three Laws or, more specifically, when they lack the Zeroth Law. In the film RoboCop the partially human main character has been programmed with three laws that he must obey without question. Even if different in letter and spirit they have some similarities with Asimov’s ones: “Serve the Public Trust“, “Protect the Innocent“ and “Uphold the Law“.[46] These particular laws allow Robocop to harm a human being if it means to protect another one and so fulfil his role as would a human law enforcement officer. And in the Indian\Tamil film, Endhiran obo Actor Rajinikanth prepares Chitti(robot) for a panel evaluation by the Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Institute (AIRD). The panel enquires whether Chitti’s build confirms to the Three Laws of Robotics of Isaac Asimov. But Rajinikanth replies to them that he created this robot for serving in the Indian army and it might be in situation where it would kill its enemy as to protect others. So he replies negative.