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An Extension of Asimov’s Robotics Laws

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In a world, where Artificial Intelligence systems will decide about increasingly many issues, including life and death, how should autonomous systems faced with ethical dilemmas decide, and what is required from humans?

This article by Jan Nagler, Jeroen van den Hoven, and Dirk Helbing was first published on August 22, 2017, as preprint under the URL https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319205931_An_Extension_of_Asimov%27s_Robotics_Laws

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We acknowledge support from SNF (grant The Anatomy of systemic financial risk, No. 162776) and ERC Advanced Investigator Grant MOMENTUM (Grant No. 324247).

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Nagler, J., van den Hoven, J., Helbing, D. (2019). An Extension of Asimov’s Robotics Laws. In: Helbing, D. (eds) Towards Digital Enlightenment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90869-4_5

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