Asimov for lawmakers

DE COOMAN, Jerome; PETIT, Nicolas

Asimov for lawmakers

dc.contributor.author	DE COOMAN, Jerome
dc.contributor.author	PETIT, Nicolas
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-15T08:36:54Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-15T08:36:54Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description	Published online: 9 February 2023
dc.description.abstract	Are there Isaac Asimov’s books on lawmakers’ bedside tables? Many emerging laws on Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) mention Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. But should they? Asimov’s stories describe failures of the Three Laws, not successes. This paper attempts to address this question by diving into Asimov’s works of and on science fiction. The paper shows that the wisdom that lawmakers can derive from Asimov’s writing is different from the regulation by design approach embodied in the Three Laws. Seven nuanced lessons about technological change, and the way societies respond to it, emerge from Asimov’s works.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Journal of business and technology law, 2022, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 1-33	en
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dc.identifier.issn	1941-5788
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dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75341
dc.identifier.volume	18	en
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dc.publisher	University of Maryland	en
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dc.relation.uri	https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/jbtl/vol18/iss1/2/	en
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dc.title	Asimov for lawmakers	en
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