Robots and Civil Liability

April 22 , 2022 // Specialty

Published in Asuntos Legales

Nothing better than science fiction literature to give us an approximation to the cases that, in the past, were nothing more than the fruit of the imagination; today we use it to think about the present and the future of humanity and its interaction with technology.  Isaac Asimov (1950) established three laws of robotics:

- A robot must not harm a human being or, by its inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;

- A robot must obey the orders that are given to it by a human being, except when these orders oppose the first law;

-A robot must protect its own existence, to the extent that this protection does not conflict with the first or second laws.