Darwin influencer , Richard Creswick , who is playing a leading part in preparations for this year's major 50th anniverary of Cyclone Tracy, took time out from his busy schedule to write an interesting , well- researched contribution to the growing discussion on artificial intelligence.
It was run in John Menadue's online Public Policy Journal , Pearls and Irritations , headed Drafting the first laws to govern AI .
Richard , a former member of Australia's most intelligent news service, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation , is a member of Darwin's learned Friday Club , swings a golf club like a robot and freely admits that a book he found in a cafe influenced his interest in the subject of AI .
That book , in a a free swap rack , was a collection of short stories by science fiction writer Isaac Assimov, which is mentioned in his erudite contribution on a most important global subject.
In part , Creswick refers to Assimov's Three Laws of Robotics :
*A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;
*A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law;
*A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law.
Readers are urged to log onto John Menadue's commendable Pearls and Irritations and read Creswick's thought provoking contribution in full .
(Assimov,Creswick,Robots).
