Humanising Artificial Intelligence. Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Control, Luca Possati (ed.)

Chapter 4: “Freudian metapsychology and AI systems”, by Paul Jorion

For eighty years now speculative thinkers have debated Isaac Asimov’s “3 Laws of robotics”, a bundle of 3 simple interlocking directions supposedly sufficient for regulating the behaviour of robots and making their daily interaction with human beings both useful and unproblematic. 

Although Asimov’s 3 laws have been the centre of profuse and vivid exchanges, they’ve been entirely ignored when engineers started to implement actual robots or “intelligent machines” broadly speaking.

The reason for such a surprising disconnect … Read the rest