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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on December 21st,

2016. I'm Steve Murski. On this episode, the robotic agents in that

series, or at least they alluded to specific agents having very specific limitations into what

they're allowed or not allowed to do. So they're, you know, they implied, for instance, that the,

the agents were, they had hard limitations about using lethal force, for instance.

That's Gordon Briggs talking about Westworld. He's a postdoc at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory,

and he's the co-author of an article in the January issue of Scientific American titled,

The Case for Robot Disobedience.

He recently earned a joint doctorate in computer and cognitive science from Tufts University,

working with his co-author, Mattaya Schutz, director of the Human Robot Interaction Lab at Tufts.

The subhead for their article reads,

Don't worry about defiant machines.

Devious masters and misunderstood commands are a bigger threat.

I spoke to Briggs by phone.

So at some time in the future, and I'm in my house with my friend and my robot,

and my friend is a funny guy and my robot's sitting there my robot is programmed to protect me of course and my friend

is cracking jokes and I just say instinctively this guy's killing me and the robot attacks my friend and subdues him because

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