Robot ordered to write lines as punishment for crime it hasn't committed yet
A robotic arm writes repeated promises not to hunt humans in artist Filipe Vilas-Boas and architect Paul Coudamy's installation The Punishment.
The piece ? which is being shown at digital festival Futur en Seine in Paris from 8 to 10 June ? was designed to raise awareness of the looming threat of automation, and address people's "fear and fascination" with robots.
Sat at a typical wooden school desk, the orange arm continually writes the same phrase ? "I must not hunt humans" ? in a notebook placed in front of it. Vilas-Boas considers it "a preventive punishment for its possible future disobedience".
The artist chose the phrase as a reference to science fiction author Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, devised in 1942 and used as a plot point in a number of his stories. They call for a robot to refrain from injuring any human being, to protect them from harm and to obey their orders. "Technologies are merging at high speed, notably robotics and artificial intelligence," Vilas-Boas told Dezeen. "Following that logic we can easily imagine more and more robots with the ability to perceive, understand and communicate with us. It's clearly a dystopian anthropomorphisation here."
The artist collaborated with Coudamy ? who had been using the industrial arm to explore digital fabrication and ways of incorporating robotics into architecture ? to create a set of commands for the machine.
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