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Video! Chess Robot Breaks Opponent's Finger In Match
A seven-year-old boy's finger was carelessly mangled by a chess playing robot in a chess tournament in Moscow.
All acquisition that advanced AI will destroy humanity is false. Not the powerful AI or breaching laws of robotics will destroy humanity, but engineers with both left hands :/
— Pavel Osadchuk 👨💻💤 (@xakpc) July 21, 2022
On video - a chess robot breaks a kid's finger at Moscow Chess Open today. pic.twitter.com/bIGIbHztar
According to reports, the robot did not appreciate the boy's haste and grabbed his index finger and gave it a firm squeeze. The young player's finger was taken out by the onlookers who sprang in to aid, but the fracture was unavoidable."The boy is all right. They put a plaster cast on the finger to heal faster. Yes, there are certain safety rules and the child, apparently, violated them and, when he made a move, did not notice that he had to wait. This is an extremely rare case, the first I can recall," Smagin said.
(Via LiveMint.)
It's about time for the Three Laws of Robotics, criticisms by modern roboticists aside, from Isaac Asimov's 1942 short story Runaround:
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"One, a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."
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